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Just the News No Noise with John Solomon and Amanda Head, January 12th, 2026
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Good evening, America. Happy Monday and welcome to the latest edition of Just the News. No noise. I'm your host John Solomon reporting to you as always from the Nation's capital, Washington, D.C. this weekend we had a lot of impact from our reporting. President Trump himself has been shining light on our latest story on the Arctic Frost investigation. That's an investigation that was like a giant fish dragging exercise, looking for any evidence that they could find to hang something on President Trump or his followers. We'll get to his reaction in a second. But first, some background on the new information that Justin News learned about and obtained over the weekend. It turns out an FBI supervisor who's openly opposed to Donald Trump, he actually posted his comments against Donald Trump on social media, played a crucial role in igniting the controversial Arctic Frost probe. Pressing to add the former president as a formal subject, even though they didn't have any evidence that the President was involved in the alleged behavior that they were investigating. To make his case, he wasn't sending around evidence, he wasn't sending around documents, he was sending around articles from liberal activists and left wing news sources to make his case. That's according to evidence that was turned over to Congress. Emails and electronic communications obtained by Just the News as well. Special Agent Timothy Thibaut, that name sounds familiar, right? We've talked about him a lot on this show. He left his role as the assistant agent in charge of the Washington field office of the FBI in August 2022 after his anti Trump social post became public. By the way, Jerry Dunleavy, one of my colleagues here at Justin News broke that story. But he's the guy that was trying to get this case on the ground. One of the things that case did is it paid an informant money for dirt on President Trump and his followers. $20,000. That's the story that we broke on Saturday. President Trump reacted to that today. President Trump reacted to the news story. The role of Thiebaud and others to try to get President Trump as a target of this investigation. He wrote on Truth Social just a while ago. These FBI agents are total scum in their own way. No better than the insurrectionists in Portland, Minnesota, Los Angeles, et cetera. Cash, meaning Cash Patel, the FBI director better get them out now. Radical left lunatics put in by the auto pen. That's in reference to Joe Biden and Obama. Now let me tell you what happened right after President Trump put that out. The FBI director responded not only to our story, but what the President said, saying Cash Patel Posting this up on Truth Social just a little bit ago, literally about five minutes ago, Mr. President, they were fired last year. So he confirms that the agents who they believe were abusive in the investigation were, if they hadn't left on their own accord, were fired in the last year. That is brand new out of the FBI director. All right, with all that, let's turn to my amazing co host, Amanda Head. She's been tracking a lot of other headlines. What's happening today. Happy Monday.
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Yeah, Happy Monday to you. Well, the Supreme Court is top of mind for me, and they are anticipated to make a ruling on Trump's tariff policies sometime this month. And President Trump's comments on True Social regarding this impending decision have certainly raised the stake. President Trump's. President Trump states on True Social, if the Supreme Court rules against the United States of America on this national security bonanza, we are screwed. Now, in his full post, he also pointed out that determining how much the US Would owe could take a significant amount of time. He emphasized that if the Supreme Court were to rule against these policies, the country could be on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars in investment money. Now, this could lead to, if not outright financial ruin, a severe economic crisis for our nation. So we, of course, will be keeping a very close watch on that vote, and we will be ready to report that to you once the ruling is in. Now shifting to another pressing issue facing the Trump administration, that would be Greenland. Following President Trump's capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Mad Maduro, he's ramping up the pressure when it comes to acquiring Greenland. And now numerous European leaders are citing their disagreement at that idea. So how close are we to making that happen? Well, here's what White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt had to say. Does the president have a dateline or.
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A timeline of Greenland?
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No, he has not set a timeline, but it's definitely a priority for him. She's asking about Greenland, and I think the president was very clear last night. He said, said that he wants to see the United States acquire Greenland because he feels that if we do not, then it will eventually be acquired or even perhaps hostilely taken over by either China or Russia, which is not a good thing for the United States or for Europe or for Greenland as well. Let's not forget, it would not just be in the best interest of the United States, but perhaps it would be in the best interest of Greenland as well. Okie dokie. You heard it from the press secretary first. There is no set timeline. As for military action regarding Greenland, that's Still a hot topic of debate. And as Press Secretary Levitt puts it, if we don't secure Greenland, perhaps one of our adversaries will. John, I know that our first guest tonight is going to want to talk about Greenland for sure, because he's proposed. Yes, 51st state.
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Yeah. We're very lucky to kick off today's show with Congressman Randy Fine of the great state of Florida. He had a new MAGA piece of legislation say make Greenland great again. I love that when everyone's talking about it. And we're lucky to have the Congressman joining us. Congressman, we welcome to the show. Everybody buzzing about your legislation.
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Well, look, I think it's important for Congress to stand behind the President. Greenland is a critical national security issue for us. They're not only in between us and Russia, but the shipping lanes around the country could be used by bad actors to harm us. We can't afford to let a nation of 50,000 people, which for most of us would be a small town, choose to align themselves with Russia and China. So that's why I support what the president is doing. And my legislation would get Congress on board with everything that he's getting done.
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Yeah.
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Congressman, what would it practically look like for us to acquire Greenland?
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Well, I think my bill doesn't lay out the policy. My bill supports the president in making those decisions. And so he's going to be the one who sits down with the Greenlanders and the folks from Denmark and negotiate how this all works. But what I would think happened is hopefully it's something consensual where they say they give it to us, we buy it, however it works. It's 50,000 people. We're not talking about a huge number of people, and we're also talking about a group of people who have not been well treated. The poverty rate in Greenland is much, much higher than it is in Denmark. The suicide rate in Greenland is an order of magnitude higher than it is in Denmark. So these are folks who could use some help. And I think joining the freest, most powerful, richest nation in the history of the world is going to be a win for them as well. I think this is a win for Greenland. I think this is a win for the world. And so I just want to support President Trump in getting it done.
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Yeah. So important for a while, President Trump was talking about making Canada the 51st state, but I think it's got a better chance, particularly with your legislation. Greenland could be our 51st state. Right.
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Well, I think that Greenland doesn't have the kind of leverage that Canada Does. Canada's a large, successful, powerful, wealthy country. This is a huge piece of land with 50,000 people that China has tried to make inroads to. And the president's concern is real. I mean, if it's not us, it could be them. And we've learned in Venezuela, a country that, by the way, at one time was a huge ally of the United States, they went down a socialist path. They became a huge problem, a launching pad for Russia and China, an open place where Muslim terrorists could operate unimpeded. And look at what we've had to do to go and fix that problem. We can't afford to let Greenland become the next Venezuela. And I think that's what President Trump's trying to solve. My legislation to give him the congressional framework to do that. Annexation will help get that done.
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Amazing.
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Congressman, I know that the troops there have been told to shoot first and ask questions later, but doesn't the US Already have a presence there? That doesn't seem like a great idea to me.
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Well, we do have a military base there right now, and we do offer them security protections.
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What.
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What folks need to understand is In World War II, the last time this part of the world was legitimately threatened by a foreign power, Denmark couldn't protect Greenland. We had to step up and get the. The job done. And as a result, we have military bases there. So I'm hoping that the Greenlanders and the Danes come to their senses, realize that just because they used to be a big colonial power doesn't mean that they should be. Den Greenland is not a critical national security asset for the Danes. There may be ego involved, but they don't need it to be successful. Where they are, we do. And President Trump is simply reasserting the Monroe Doctrine, which has existed for more than 200 years, which says when it comes to the Western Hemisphere, we're in charge, nobody else.
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Sarah, you've talked, you've talked so articulately over the time of the last few years about educating the American people about how much abuse went on under the color of law enforcement, under the color of state, under the color of the intelligence community. This weekend, we get some new revelations. They paid $20,000 to try to get dirt on Donald Trump. The FBI did, but the guy driving it is openly anti Trump. And his evidence, as he's trying to build a case against President Trump is to turn to liberal activists and liberal news media articles rather than actual evidence of crimes. Your thoughts about the FBI that Cash Patel inherited and how much it may have changed in the Last year.
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Well, I appreciate what Cash is doing. I think he's doing a great job and he's throwing all of these people out. But the challenge is that's not enough. If people don't go to jail for weaponizing government under the auto pen, then they will eventually get another bite at the apple. There will someday, God forbid, be another Democrat president. And if what happened over the last four years, the greatest abuses of presidential power in the history of this country, if there are not consequences for that, God help us for what they will do the next time around. When people engage in bad behavior, there need to be consequences for it. They fade now. They need to fo. And so I'm very hopeful that we're going to put some of these people in jail.
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I won't ask you to spell out that acronym or say it out loud. Sir. I want to shift gears.
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I don't know that you want me to say it.
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I think we've got a delay. Someone can mute it, I'm sure. Sir, I want to bring things to what's happening in Minnesota because you've got Mayor Jacob Fry, you've got Governor Tim Walls, a lot of these Democrats in the state who are saying, well, ICE isn't doing this in Florida. Well, for one thing, Florida is not a sanctuary state and it doesn't have sanctuary cities. So talk to us about the difference between these two states. I mean, Florida seems to not have the issue that Minnesota has preserved.
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Did they actually talk about Florida today? If they did, that's the first I've heard of it. That's crazy. And here's why. In Florida, it was my bill. I've only been in Congress for nine months, but before that I was a Florida legislator. I was a Florida senator one year ago when we passed the strongest anti illegal immigration bill in the country where we required. And it was my bill, along with, by the way, chairman of the Republican National Committee, Joe Grutters. It was our bill that required every Florida law enforcement agency to work with ice. Not to impede them, but to work with them. And Governor DeSantis just announced that we have rounded up 10,400 people in the last year because of that bill. We don't have these problems in Florida because we don't let people behave the way they do in Minnesota. In Florida, if you want to stand in the way of an ICE agent by getting in the street, they can run you over. We don't put up with this stuff in Florida. So Florida, all eyes are focused on illegal immigration and deporting every single illegal immigrant. And let me tell you something. President Trump today showed real estate prices in this country. Americans are concerned about affordability. And the cities that have had the most deportations, housing prices have come down. The sanctuary cities, they have gone up. Why is that? Because when you deport millions of people, you open up housing that actual Americans can live in. If we want to win the election in November, we have to make people understand that the single greatest driver of making America unaffordable is illegal immigrants who are not only ripping us off, but they're bidding up the prices for everything that we buy.
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Want to ask about one of the accountability tools that hasn't been fully leveraged yet? You've got people that use the tax code as nonprofit to bring illegals in, then get them to the sanctuary cities, and then to organize protests so that ICE agents can't do their job safely to arrest those who are illegally in the country. How important is it for Congress and the administration to cut off the financial flow, particularly from nonprofits, and get a tax break, spending money that ultimately hurts the American interest?
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We've got to cut it off entirely. And actually, nonprofits are one of the largest threats facing the United States. And why do I say that? Well, marketing and branding matters. And when people hear the term nonprofit, you know what the average American thinks? It thinks about a goody two shoes who's barely making ends meet doing something socially responsible for the country, but not making any money. There are CEOs of nonprofits that make millions, if not tens of millions of dollars. A nonprofit simply means you don't pay taxes and there are no shareholders. The profits get distributed to your employees. And so there are people operating as these sort of social welfare organizations that are fleecing the taxpayer, using that money to do things that don't help the country, and then sticking us with the bill. Nonprofit reform needs to be a focus that we're working on in Congress.
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So important, I mean, nonprofits like Black Lives Matter made tens of millions. Sir, I want to ask you about. Before we let you go, Philadelphia's sheriff had some interesting and choice words to say about ICE, declaring they are fake law enforcement. What do you want to see happen here?
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Well, she's the fake law enforcement. I think we've learned that the Philadelphia Police Department and the Philadelphia Sheriff's Department are not the same. We've all had to learn that over the last few days. What I would say is this. We have a supremacy class laws in the United States. Federal law reigns supreme. And all ICE is doing they are not going after Americans. They are going after foreigners who have invaded this country who have refused to leave. And if you look at the list that ICE released yesterday about the people they've been rounding up, these are some of the greatest scum of the earth you can imagine. Rapists, predators, murderers, people who no one should want in this country. So what I would say to that sheriff and any other state or local politician who wants to get in the way of the ice, you do that, you should get arrested and you should go to jail just like these illegals.
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Yeah, just good old fashioned common sense. We used to have a lot of it in blue cities. Not so many today. Congressman Randy Fine, great honor to have you on. We're going to be watching that Greenland bill very closely. Very important piece of legislation. Thanks for joining us, sir. Anytime.
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Let me know.
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Right? Yeah, it's awesome. Good to have you. Sorry about that delay, folks. All right, coming up next, is the Iranian government on the brink of collapse? A lot of people think it may attempt to answer that question next right after the break. Hey, America. The FBI has been warning about a type of real estate fraud on the rise called home title theft. And your equity is the target. Here's how it works. Criminals forge your signature on a sign single document, use a fake notary stamp and file it with the county. And just like that, boom. They're on record as owning your home using your ownership. They then take out loans against your equity or even sell your property. And you're not going to know about it until you get a foreclosure or collection notice in the mail. And that's not going to be a good moment. That's why I partnered with Home Title Lock so you can protect your equity. And find out today if you're already a victim, use my promo code jtn@hometitlelock.com, you'll get a free title history report and a free child. They're million dollar triple lock protection. That's a great deal. Million bucks to protect your home. That's 247 monitoring of your title records, urgent alerts to any changes. And if fraud occurs, their US based restoration team will spend up to a million bucks to fix it. Find out why I trust hometatalock. Protect yourself like I did. Don't be a victim. Protect your equity. Today. Go to homethetalock.com and use that promo code jtn. That's homethetalock.com promo code jtn.
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Welcome back, everybody. You know John and I try to keep it fresh when it comes to foreign policy. And I know we're going to have some great guests this week talking about what's percolating in Iran. But, John, I talked to a lot of Iranians, some of which are our neighbors here on Pennsylvania Avenue, who talks about the importance of this moment and what this looks like compared to similar uprisings that we saw in 2022 and then three years before that in 2019. And what's so unique about Obama really booted. Right.
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We could have overthrown the Mullahs in.
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2009 if we had embraced and Obama totally sabotaged that. But now we are in a moment where this could actually bring down this theocratic regime for the Iranian people.
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Yeah, yeah. You just heard Congressman Fine in the earlier session say, listen, we got to for the nonprofits that are funding all of this mayhem in the world, the anarchy, we're going to cut off the funding flow. That's what the president has to do right now to Iran. There are people that are facilitating Iran's continued survival. Buying oil illicitly, drones illicitly. President Trump today, just before we came on Air, about 20 minutes before, said 25% tariff on anybody or any country that does business with Iran. That's going to get attention.
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We have a tariff that's on top of the existing tariff, right?
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That's right. And also it's on top of any sanctions you might get for violating the sanctions. You know, the penalty. So President Trump up and up the pressure. It becomes a really tricky thing. If the president launches missiles into Iran right now, there will be question about the guy. Now, he could go to the United nations or to NATO or someplace in China tried to do it that way like we did with the Gulf War. I think the regime is so tenuous on its hold on power that just tightened more penalties will probably cause a lot more people to stop buying. Once they stop buying the oil and drones, it's over. They just lost their best drone customer. Venezuela. Venezuela was about to be a new drone customer. They got rid of that. Choking off the supply could be really significant. Now, the other thing is Ayatollah Khamenei, he's got no problem if he has to kill a million people to put this down, he will. He's ruthless. So the ability of the president to maneuver quickly. It's clear to me that the CIA and Mossad are on the ground agitating clearly the resistance fighters of the MEK National Council of Resistance of Iran. They're on the ground. But I do think that the next big thing is choking off what keeps the regime running. And I would be looking for far more significant actions there than if the President's really going to attack. I'd be watching. He doesn't like the UN he hates going there. But this may be one of the times where he'd get universal international approval.
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And he could go, well, and I mean, as you said, I mean, they, they have absolutely no problem killing off however many people they need. But it makes me want to say to the people of Iran, just hang on a little bit longer. Obviously the strain will go to them first before it ever does the regime, but it makes me want to say to them, just hang on a little bit longer. Because I know if President Trump has anything to do with it, even from an outside angle, he wants this to end for them because it's been way too long.
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500 to 2,000 people, depending who's counting, have been killed just in the last couple of days by the regime. So it's really significant. But you don't see the Iranian people backing down. I saw some amazing video footage of firefights where the, the Iranian people. And this has a real potential. This is century changing stuff if it happens, just like Venezuela, century changing stuff. So, yeah.
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And to see it during our lifetime would be absolutely amazing.
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You befuddled me last night and I know I want to get to our next step. But there were more, there was more sympathy for illegal aliens and those who endanger our law enforcement at last night's Golden Globes than there was appreciation for common sense or even the movies. It seemed like the people on the Golden Gloves are more interested in the icing than they were about the awards ceremony. Maybe because the awards there was so boring, but you had some moments, I think, that caught your attention.
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Unfortunately, they came from some very likely suspects, like Mark Ruffalo, who always has choice words for Donald Trump. And he commented on the situation in Minnesota and the woman who was unfortunately fatally shot by ice, Renee Good. Check out this.
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We have a woman, Renee Goode, was murdered in our streets of America today. And we got literally stormtroopers running around terrorizing. And as much as I love all this, I can't, I don't know if I could pretend like this crazy stuff isn't happening. We have a president who says the laws of the, of the, of the world don't apply to him. And we could rely on his morality, but he has no morality.
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The laws of the world don't apply to him. I'm pretty sure that these people are upheld by the laws of the United States. But you know, I wouldn't leave it to Mark Ruffalo to explain the Constitution to anyone.
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Anyway, Hollywood is moving to Dallas and to the real people who can actually have talent move because they the, the, the, this silly political stuff is, it's ruining the entertainment industry.
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Yeah, it is.
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Example. Don't you.
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That was just a little teaser. We're going to finish up with a few more clips from last night that we can all laugh together about at the end of the show. But we're going to take a very quick break and we'll be back in just a moment. Welcome back everybody. You would think that in a country that is so freedom minded that you wouldn't have banks out there who handle millions upon millions upon millions of people's money. You wouldn't expect them to just be handing out information on their customers to federal law enforcement and investigations, at least not without a subpoena. But that's exactly what bank of America did in the wake of January 6th. So a lot of folks have, have a problem with it and now they are being sued. So joining us now to talk about this, the CEO of Old Glory Bank, a bank that does have your freedom in mind, Mike Ring. Mike, thanks so much for joining us.
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Thanks for having me on. We've been talking about this for years and finally someone step up and sue in bank of America.
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Absolutely. So how do you expect this to pan out? Because you know, I don't want this to be like a too big to fail type situation where bank of America is too much of a behemoth to take any type of hit. But they need to feel it.
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Thank you for that. In fact, I'm going to have a call to action at the end of this. So just kind of set the stage. As folks remember following January 6th, bank of America worked with the FBI and FinCEN. And this isn't just speculation because we've got whistleblowers. Jim Jordan put out a report this time last year and he actually attached the emails between bank of America and the FBI talking about how they were going to search their database to find customers who use their debit card and credit card in DC around J6, but they weren't down there. They were also going to just mine their data to find anyone who had bought firearms. And I have been on your show and other shows just railing on them because we would never do that. We would never cancel someone for what they believe. But bank of America literally did this, sent the data to the government and finally a great patriot In Florida is suing bank of America on behalf of a class.
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So important. And it's not the only person to take note. The Office of Comptroller of the Currency did a report on not only bank of America, but Wells Fargo and other major banks and debanking. Basically using political litmus tests to decide whether someone can transact business or not. Talk a little bit about how important it is when the OCC weighs in and starts raising some concerns.
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Yeah, exactly right, John. That was part of why we started as a market solution to be the bank for America who wouldn't cancel people and we didn't listen. God called us. Thankfully, it's worked out well for us. We serve customers in all 50 states. But what drives me so crazy. And listen, as you've heard, no one beats on the regulators more than I do because I think that they're overregulate banks, especially smaller startup banks like us who are fighting for America. But what drives me crazy is that these big banks keep saying that the regulator made me do it and the regulators made us share data. They're blaming the Bank Secrecy act, which has nothing to do with your secrets. They're blaming different regulators for not banking, Donald Trump and conservatives, when respectfully, it's them, it's their decision. And listen, I'd like to do a little shout out and a little call to action if you don't mind. There's a little law firm like maybe six, seven lawyers. I don't know these people, but they look like patriots that's representing the plaintiff in this case against bank of America, which humbly cementing is anything but the bank of America. It's called the Levin law Firm. We have a great product called Old Glory Alliance. It's our version of crowdfunding. But we don't judge people, we don't cancel you. If you don't agree with us, please go to Old Glory Alliance. I've set up a crowdfunding page to help this law firm. I made the first donation. I don't know these people, but they are patriots fighting Goliath to protect these people and finally get justice for having their data shared with the FBI.
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It's important.
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Absolutely.
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We have to have these consequences. There have been so few consequences for our privacy being dis eradicated. It's crazy.
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You're right. It seems like unless people set up and sue, nothing happens. And so we've got to take on the lawsuits ourselves and help people.
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Yeah. Report and a letter, that's all we get.
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Strong, strongly worded letter. When it Comes to a bank the size of bank of America, how big would damages have to be to, to really send the message to bank of America, Chase, JP Morgan, whoever.
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That's a really good question because they always talk about punitive damages. I'm not sure if the theory under which this lawsuit is happening, which is the right to financial privacy. It does not provide for punitive damages. So I think what the plaintiff has to do is find a tort and that would be more of a breach of just fiduciary duty that your bank has to you. And then you could get punitive damages. But unless they are financially hurt, and apparently it's not enough, just that we're out there talking about them and we're asking customers to leave. The big bad banks come to us. They need to write a check to these people whose data was literally shared with the government. And listen, Cash Patel is doing a great job at the FBI and he has a lot going on. And I would love it if he would come out and say, oh, by the way, with regard to all of the data and all the transaction information that bank of America sent to the FBI under Biden, I hereby confirm it's deleted, it's gone. Because I don't even know what happened to all this data. A record of everyone who basically bought a firearm or who used their debit and credit card around DC on J6.
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Yeah, now that would be a great one. It's something we could probably track down as the reporters and ask him the question. That's a great, great point, Mike. All right, so the next question is what is this new world look like? You have created a bank that answers the call it makes up front. The promise the American people. We protect your privacy, we protect your freedom. We're not the bankers, we're not political litmus test people. What is the response been and where does this banking industry go? Because it seems like one of the things that could happen in the next few years is that places like SBA and student loans and Fannie Mae could decide to do a lot more business with freedom loving banks and a lot less. That would get bank of America's attention pretty quickly, wouldn't it?
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Amen, brother. So thank you for the easy softball. So we started off as a little bank in Elmore city, Oklahoma with 10 million in deposits and less than three years. We're at $250 million in deposits. We have 80,000 accounts, we have 4,000 plus business accounts. And it's just an amazing, an amazing accomplishment from the hard team. Listen I'm just the crazy person out front talking about these issues. But it's the great team behind us and we have this. This is, this is what's important. We have the best product, product, product and customer service in the industry. You leave the big banks, you come to a bank that loves you, protects you, will not share your data inappropriately. Doesn't you know, won't, won't persecute you for flying the flag. But, oh, by the way, you get better banking products and service. You can get me on the phone, you can get me. My email is real. It's mikeringlorybank.com there's no other bank CEO on the planet you can get to. I answer every email. We serve our customers like a community bank, but our community is all of America. And I'm just so proud to lead this great team.
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Amazing, Mike. I know there are a lot of people out there who bank with some of the bigger banks just because of the ease of use or maybe they like the app or the convenience of it. They like the amount of locations. When someone leaves a big bank like that and they come to a smaller bank, do they have to sacrifice anything or do they find it all at your bank?
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They find it all and we have every banking product and more. At Old Glory bank, it takes eight minutes to open up an account. Home loans, business loans, SBA loans, VA loans, credit cards, debit cards. But we've got something though. You know, most banks don't have and can't even think about having. We actually represent Main Street. You know, what Main street does is they occasionally get a little cash. And you can't deposit cash on your phone. You can deposit your check, you can do wires and ACHs on your phone, but you can't deposit cash. So we've got a great product called Old Glory Cash In. You can walk into one of 88,000 locations and there's one in every small town, places like Dollar General and deposit cash. So you don't need. Chase bank has 5,000 branches. Just go on their website that you can deposit cash. We have 88,000 retail locations. Deposit cash and while you're in there, thank that retailer for taking your money. And it automatically goes into your account in seven seconds and bye. Stick a gum on the way out as a thank you.
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That's a good idea. I love it. I want to turn to one other abusive thing that we're getting a lot more of information on, something we've been reporting on the last couple of days. The president's been tweeting out our word. The FBI is already cross investigation. Hundreds of people get subpoenaed groups. It's looking at a giant swath of the conservative movement, hoping they might just find something that they can hang a cross criminal hat on. That's not the way investigations were designed to be made or done or conducted under the Fourth Amendment. Do you think there's a moment right now where the American people, obviously the Justice Department has to prosecute people and create some penalties. The federal regulators have to punish the banks that gave up data without permission. But it seems to me the American people have the most power to try to say we're done with this sort of fishing expedition at the expense of our privacy.
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A
Yeah, that's all that's so true, John. What really drives me crazy about Arctic Frost and thank goodness that Senator Chuck Grassley for getting this out there. And again, showing the actual subpoena data.
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C
Yeah.
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A
What's terrible about the Biden Justice Department for doing this? And remember, folks, they didn't do this until late 2022 after Trump announced. So don't tell me that's right, that they did this because they were still worried about January 6th, a year and a half earlier. They only did it to stop Trump. And they sent out 400 subpoenas to 20 banks. Of course, not us. They would know better than the Senate. To us, to 20 banks, over 92 Republican organizations, including the RNC, Turning Point, various MAGA groups. And to think that the RNC and these groups were somehow laundering money or involved in some type of financial activity, that they had to be subpoenaed. And the worst part about. So that's bad. The worst part about it, instead of the banks coming out and screaming, filing motions to quash, which I would have done, coming on your show and saying, listen, we may not agree, John, but I'm not giving up the data on Republican organizations to any president. And they did nothing. And if you look at Senator Grassley's report, you can see the day they received the subpoena and the day they delivered it was like, you know, not even long enough to get a cup of coffee. And they were getting that data out as quickly as they could.
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C
Yeah, they were turning right around.
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B
Speaking of a dichotomy of perspectives, it seems like Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, he and President Trump have very different ideas on how to manage the Federal Reserve. And he claims he being Jerome Powell, that he is getting investigated because of political pressure to lower rates and possibly this maybe lack thereof of a relationship with President Trump. What do you think I actually.
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A
And Trump's made a statement about this, and I believe him. Listen, we don't catch Trump in many misstatements, statements. I don't believe anything to do with this. I believe that this is likely legitimate. I'm not suggesting that Chairman Powell actually did what he's being accused of, but I believe this is a legitimate investigation. And I just love the fact that here he is, three months left, and of all the big ideas Trump has, President Trump has, he thinks that this is the one that Trump is gonna use to lower the rates. And I would just step back and say, listen, Chairman Powell, if you're explaining, you're losing. The fact that you did that goofy. Like, it's okay for me to do a goofy podcast. The fact that you did that goofy statement, it shows that's a person who is trying to get in front of the story because he is worried. I would have just said, I would have ignored it and said it's not real. But he had to do a statement. So I think there could be something there. I look forward to the investigation. But listen, I love how the Fed continues to complain that they need to have independence. There is no one in this country as independence. I report to my stockholders. You report to people. President Trump reports to his, his voters. Maybe a judge is truly independent. But where do we get off? Nowhere. And I've read it, read the Federal Reserve act of 1913. Nowhere does it say it's independent. This is a myth created by the elites so that they have protection to do what's good for the big banks and for the rich people in this country and not Main Street. And. And I wait to see what happens here.
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B
Yep, we will be waiting along with you to see what takes place. CEO of Old Glory Bank, Mike Ring. Mike, thanks so much for joining us.
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A
Thank you very much for having me.
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B
Absolutely. All right, everybody, coming up next, if you need multiple cups of coffee throughout the day, we might have a better solution for you. More on that after this coffee break, Everybody. Let's face it, many of us wake up tired. We wake up. We wake up tired. We wake up dragging throughout the day with that micro tiredness feeling. And I don't know if you're like me, but I have to have multiple cups of coffee throughout the day, and I just don't think that that's very good for me. So you got to do that to get through the day. And it's like America has almost given up on the idea of a good night's sleep. So what can we do to get a good night's rest so that we don't need all of that coffee? Joining us now to discuss this is the CEO of Ghostbed, Mark Werner. Mark, thanks so much for being with us.
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E
Thank you for having Ghostbed John and Amanda today.
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B
Absolutely. All right, so tell us about Ghostbed. What is it? How does it work? Tell us.
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E
So a little background. My grandfather started werner ladder over 100 years ago. He was a lieutenant colonel in World War I and 2 and served in those battles. And then he started the Werner Company and then brought on my dad. And my dad invented the aluminum ladder ladder and the fiberglass ladder and started the family business. And all about quality and durability and brand reputation. Great American family story. Been around over 100 years. Went from nothing to 85% market share over that hundred year period.
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C
Wow.
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E
Business was sold about 26 years ago and I wanted to keep the family business going. So my wife and I started ghostfed. And I wanted our kids to be involved because family business is important to me and important to my wife and my family. And it's a great way to keep your family together as a binder. So I also had three neck surgeries, which helped lead me into making a pillow and a mattress that worked for me because I couldn't find anything that did. And I'm an inventor guy. And in fact, I invented the digital bathroom scale that many people probably don't like me about, but I did nonetheless. So I've invented a lot of things. So I made my own pillow and mattress that worked. And then I just kept adding on to that from there. And so that's kind of our genesis. The reason the story, we're based here in South Florida. We really started in Chicago. We moved down here about 20 years ago. And so Ghostbed sells direct to consumer, sells to the big box people like Costco and Sam's Club. We sell in the United States, Canada, the uk Expanding to Puerto Rico and Mexico this year. So it's a growing company, multichannel omnichannel type of business with a number of products that can deal with your different needs. It's back pain, neck pain, this pain, whatever it is. We've got a different product, cooling technologies that work and make our customers very happy.
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C
All right, So I gotta admit, I'm a little jaded as an investigative reporter. Like, well, how much difference can a mattress make? But I recently got a Ghostbed, and it is really a different. It's almost a religious experience when you get in the bed, because it just Feels different than as the night goes on. If it's the furnace has been running too long or it's too cold in the house, it seems to adapt to your body. There's some real innovation. I can't describe it, other than the experience is incredible. What is the innovation behind this? How did you make a temperature adapting patch that actually kind of just modifies where my body's going over the course of a sleep journey?
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E
It's a great question. So we use phase change technology, aerating phase foam layers and then putting phase change. So phase change is think of like water in an ice cube. You drink water right now, you put in the freezer, it's an ice cube. You put it back in the room temperature and it gets to the ambient temperature, it's back to water. It's changing the phase of it. So it sucks away the heat from your person and allows that heat to go away. And you don't need like a 20 degree difference. One or two degrees is all you need to kind of feel the effect of a cooling sensation. I always tell the story, when you were a little kid and you had a, you were sick and you said to your mother, you know, I'm dying here. She takes your temperature. It's like, okay, 99.8. You're up one degree, and you thought you were burning up. It doesn't take much to kind of burn up. And it doesn't take too much to get you back to a neutral position so you feel really good. So that's part of the science. And then we have a lot of different kinds of ways of going at it. Also putting the phase change technology into the fabric so it's instant cool touch, which feels great. For the mattress, our pillows, our cooling pillows, and even our sheets, we use Tenasil, which is made from eucalyptus and long staple cotton, Pima cotton from California. We weave it together, and every morning I wake up on our sheets and I say to my wife, this is like the greatest thing ever. And, I mean, I'm saying the same thing over year after year after year. I just switched which mattress I use to our 3D matrix mattress, which uses the same gel that's on every operating table, that's instantly cool and also has no pressure points. So since my next surgery, I decided to get back into golf, which was what I did in college. And my passion took 15 years off, and now I'm back into it. I figured I'm in pain anyway, why not suffer some more? But I wanted to change which mattress I'm on. So I'm now on the 3D matrix, so it takes away all those pressure points. So I'm not as bad off in the morning.
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C
That's amazing.
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B
All right, Mark, I gotta ask you, because I'm a back sleeper, so I could sleep on a 2x4 and be perfectly happy on my back. My husband is a side sleeper, so he needs something a little bit squishier. If you have two people like me and my husband who have differing preferences, how does that work on your mattresses?
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E
This is like a thank you question. I mean, we're the king of split king mattresses. So you have an adjustable base, which is great for you for neck pressure, back pressure, massaging it under bed lighting. And then you can each have mattress. And there's no really valley of separation. You're totally together with the two twin XL mattresses that go onto these bases. And you can have a firmer mattress. He can have a mattress that's more adaptive for being a side sleeper. It works out perfectly. That's how I set it up with my wife. And it's a growing category. It's a category we help really push and pioneer at Costco and Sam's Club. And more and more people are getting into it with adjustable bases and split kings.
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C
That's what I'm. Amazing that so much innovation in the sleeping industry. All right, I want to turn to something else that keeps me up sometimes at night, but not because my mattress isn't good, because I worry about the economy and all of the extraordinary high interest. It's kind of slowed down people from buying things that make this country and its manufacturing base go. Tell us a little bit about the Fed. It actually has an impact even in a mattress industry industry. Right?
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E
It does. We're in the durable goods business. And so durable good is anything that lasts more than 12 months. So I think a third of all workers make products in the durable goods space. We've all been in a recessionary environment for going on five years. It sort of peaked in September of 21, and it hasn't gotten any better. We need housing to come back. And what housing needs is lower interest rates. I mean, housing is down almost 50% in turnover. And every house that's sold and turned over, it's 2.2 mattresses. And I'm sure it's a barbecue and paint and furnishings and kitchen stuff and cabinets, etc. And it's just critical to our economy to get it going. We need the rates down. I appreciate what Washington's. The Trump administration is Trying to do, to try to drive rates down. It's very important. And if you're Matt and you're Google, you guys make so much money. Nothing matters to you guys. You just huge businesses. But regular businesses around this country need housing to turn, need lower rates. It's better for automotive. It's just what we need. Please get the rates out.
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B
So Mark, before we let you go, tell us about this 101 night sleep trial.
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C
I like this.
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E
So what we do is we allow you to get the mattress, we ship it to your house, either FedEx or White Glove, whatever you prefer, and then you have the almost three months to three months to try it out. If you don't like it, if it's the wrong decision for you, we'll pick it up and take it away and give you full credit. We're totally good. We try to have what is called the Marks quiz at the beginning of the, when you come onto the site to kind of figure out if you sleep hot, if you're a back sleeper side sleeper, you know what your issues are to try to narrow it down. And I gotta say, it works very effectively because our return rate is under 5%. So that's really a low return rate for buying a product sight unseen, which is also affordable quality. We're not priced like tempur pedic at 5 to 15,000. We're between 700 and 1800.
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B
$2,000, that's a bargain, an absolute bargain.
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C
I'll just speak as a customer. It didn't take me 101 nights. It took me about 101 minutes to realize I was sleeping on something very different. It really is. I just never thought a mattress would make that big a difference and it really does, folks. I just, I don't endorse many products, but I will tell you, this was a game changer for me. So I just want, I want to mention it. I don't, I don't endorse very many things.
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B
Mark, love your product. CEO of Ghostbed. Thanks so much for being with us tonight.
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E
Thank you so much.
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B
Absolutely. All right, everybody. For our audience, if you would like to get better quality sleep risk free, visit ghostbed.com justnews and don't forget, you can try the 101 night sleep trial. So don't miss out on that. They offer this guarantee because people actually sleep better on a Ghostbed. So you're going to get your mattress shipped directly to your home. There's no pressure, no showroom awkwardness. On top of that, Ghostbed is offering the white glove setup option where they will remove your old mattress so you don't have to lift a finger. So do don't make the mistake thousands of Americans make every day when choosing their mattress, spending thousands, thousands of dollars thinking they are going to be getting the highest quality sleep. Visit ghostbed.com Just news with the promo code. Just news for an extra 10% off. That's ghostbed.com just news with promo code. Just news for an extra 10% off. All right. We've got one more break and then we'll be back on the OTHER side.
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E
Foreign.
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B
Welcome back, everybody, to our final segment. All right. I want to touch on a few more of these items that I plucked from the Golden Globes. And one of them, John, I think you'll be particularly interested in because it pertains to the news biz. Nikki Glaser, the gal who was hosting the Golden Globes, she announced the Golden Globe for best editing goes to the Justice Department. Check this out. I cannot believe the amount of star power we have in this room tonight. It's insane. There are so many A listers. And by a listers, I do mean people who are on a list that has been heavily redacted. But yes. And the Golden Globe for best editing goes to the Justice Department. Now, John, I personally don't think that anyone will top Ricky Gervais when it comes to Golden Globe hosting performances. But taking a dig at celebrities in that audience I thought was pretty good. She also took a dig absolutely in the narrow.
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C
We don't have many funny jokes.
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B
She also took a dig at a news organization. Check this out. Slot three. And the award for most editing goes to CBS News. Yes. CBS News, America's newest place to CBS News. CBS News. I love that, John. A reference to, well, most recently the Kristi Noem interview, but notoriously, the Kamala Harris interview that they very generously edited.
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C
I actually thought there might have been a little shot at Barry Weiss taking over CBS News. And that too, I think the BS Part at the end, I think that's absolutely true. Yeah.
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B
Okay. So here's another one. Judd Apatow, who says showrunner says this about our country.
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C
Since then.
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A
That was 10 years ago. You know, since then we've had Covid.
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C
I believe we're a dictatorship now. And but I'm still pretty focused on this Martian thing.
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E
I gotta be honest with you.
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B
We're a dictatorship now. I wasn't aware.
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C
Maybe we can send him to Mars. He can do his more thinking out there because he's Martian thing. Listen I, I don't ever watch a Hollywood awards show ever. It's. It's banned in my, my routine because there's just nothing that's even entertaining about him anymore. It's time, you know, like what Gold Glory bank has done, like what Rav has done in the news business or Justin News has done the news. It's time to build a new entertainment industry because this one just stinks. Just. It's bad. It's not entertaining most. I mean, there's some things out there, but there's too much that's not entertaining. And they're too happy with their lack of mediocrity.
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B
Yeah. Yep. They're very myopic. They live in an echo chamber. And it is. The quality just isn't there, as you said. All right, I have a question for you because this pertains to you being the good Irish Catholic that you are. Arizona has this House bill, I think it's 2039 that calls for members of the clergy to violate the seal of confession and instances of child abuse and things like that. As a good Catholic man, you're so. Thoughts.
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C
Listen, I think the confession is something between God and each person and so the state probably can't get in a minute. And by the way, I think the state courts will probably come to that now, maybe not the lower courts, but I suspect when we get up to the upper courts that that will continue. If not the ability to confess your sins comes with a liability and a risk. And I think people stop going to confession, they stop practicing faith or that part of their faith experience. And so again, listen, I wouldn't for a second protect a child predator or murder anyone. I think they all should go to prison. But there are certain things that simply. It also doesn't seem to be like it's a major impediment to arresting people. A bigger impediment are sanctuary states that don't want to arrest murderers. They don't need to have the priest tell you who did. They already know what it is. They still don't arrest them or they let them out the next day. I think that's a much bigger threat. I think this is Arizona trying to fix something that isn't broken.
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B
Yeah, I think that's true, too. All right, everybody head over to just the newsletter. Oh, something I was researching today. Story that's going to be out tonight. The organization behind those cute little anti ice lapel pins partially funded by George Soros.
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A
Go figure.
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B
Go figure. All right, everybody, thanks so much for being with us tonight. We'll be back here tomorrow night at 6:00pm Eastern. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human.