A (8:33)

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B (10:35)

Secondly, let's talk about health care. What are we hearing on health care. Oh, we're just going to, we're going to kick grandma off of Medicare and Medicaid. Again. Not true. Totally not true. What they are doing with federal medical or health care health care coverage is they are under Medicaid, okay? And now Medicaid and Medicare are different. Medicare is for people generally that are age 65 or 66, older, depending on, you know, depending on, you know, your age when you were born and all those types of things you are able to get Medicare, let's say when you get age 65 and you pay for that, all right, it's pretty inexpensive, except unless you're still making income and then based on how much income you make is how much you pay for Medicare. Medicaid is set up primarily for people that are disabled or their income levels are such that they actually receive it free. And what the big beautiful bill is doing, which is fantastic because a lot of these things get abused, is they're requiring, excuse me, they're requiring able bodied men and women who don't have children. Now, the men child scenario doesn't come into play, but if a woman has young dependent children, they're not considered in what I'm about to tell you, they were requiring them to work, be looking, actively looking for work or be in some type of educational or training program. I mean, doesn't that just seem simple to get what I would call freeloaders off of the free health care. Why should you and I be paying for their health care when they're able to work but not willing to work? And you know, this is something actually on in the, in the 90s that Bill Clinton put in play with the Republican, Republican Congress, with Newt Gingrich as speaker for welfare payments, that and what we might call SNAP today, food stamps and what have you is that they had a work requirement in there. You had to be either working or looking for work if you were able bodied. So there will be people there. The one thing is right, it's just, you know, there's a little bit of truth in all of these misrepresentations that the Democrats are making is, is that there will be people that absolutely lose their health care under Medicaid, but it'll only be those people. Only be those people that are able bodied and should be working or at least should be looking for work or getting trained so that they can go to work. And the reason that this happened is, is when, when Obama was president, he removed some work requirements for Medicaid and other entitlements and then When Covid came along, a lot of that stuff was expanded. And all we're trying to do now is rein it back in and listen for you and I. 11 million people supposedly, that fall into this category, that'll be good. That'll make our health care system actually financially more responsible. So again, grandma, if you're, if you're disabled, if you're a mom with kids that doesn't have the income, it's not going to have any effect on your health care at all. It's only going to be on the people that are freeloading off the system and not working like you and I are to be able to pay for our health care. So that's really, really important. Another thing that came up is when Obamacare came out, or the ACA came out, I call it Obamacare because that's kind of what we learned, learned that it was back then, is that depending on how much income you made, you would get an incentive to buy health care coverage through Obamacare. And we're talking outside of Medicaid, Medicare. Okay, this is, this is separate. You had an incentive to. They gave you based on your financial situation, the less money you made, the more of an incentive they gave you or credit they gave you made it a lot less expensive. Well, those credits are set to expire at the end of 2025. And those are things that were put in by the Obama administration. These credits and the fact that they were going to expire in 2025, those aren't things that came in under Trump or Bush or anybody like that. This was the Obama and his Congress at the time. And remember when Joe Biden became president, his first two years, he had control of the Senate and the House. And if they wanted to extend these credits, they should have done it at the time. Those are going to go away unless they're extended before the end of the year. So, yes, that means that those of you that have been getting some credit extra, you know, had your health care insurance bought down by the government, that's going to go away. But you know what? That's a good thing. That's a good thing. Because what's happened is because of those government incentives were there, the only thing that's happened is health care has got gotten more expensive and more expensive. Cause if you're paying $5 a month for top flight healthcare, you don't really care what the doctor charges you. Right. Because you're not gonna pay for it anyway. The only way we're ever gonna get healthcare cost under control is by supply and demand we're gonna have to be participating in our own healthcare cost and that will end up keeping healthcare cost reasonable. But if the government's paying it or, or you don't have any incentive to, to make sure that you use your health care prudently, then it's going to keep going higher and higher and higher. All right, everybody having fun? So far it's good, right? I can tell you everybody's on the edge of their seats. I can just tell when you're driving down the road right now, I can just tell you're thinking, man, this is incredible. So we talked about Medicaid already. Actually, I used the wrong number. There's not 11 million, there's 4.8 million able bodied men and there are some women that don't have children that would, that would be caught in this scenario where they might lose their coverage under Medicaid, which is a good thing. I got, and I got this off the whitehouse.gov site. The other thing, a couple other things that does, which we're excited about, is it removes any federal dollars to organizations that provide abortions for one year. Now why it was only one year, I don't know. Probably some type of had to make some type of deal to get some of our moderate Republicans on board. But that's really cool. I mean that means Planned Parenthood for the first time is going to be defunded from federal dollars. And that's really, really exciting. Also, it removes an estimated coverage for 1.4 million illegal immigrants that have figured out how to get free health care through the government. Not supposed to be eligible for it, but some states have allowed that. So this will remove the funding for that. And again, that's good for you and me.

A (18:01)

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B (19:17)

Let's talk about what goes on in the bill from an immigration standpoint. All right, they're funding for 10,000 new ICE agents. 10,000 new ICE agents. And it's estimated that those ICE agents that will allow us to remove up to 1 million additional additional illegals per year. Now, we don't really have a good handle on how many illegal immigrants are in the country. Some people estimate it to be 12 million, some people more than that. Whatever the number is, we don't have enough ICE agents to cover that. And this comes from the, the federal American Immigration Reform Organization. You know how much we spend on illegals. Bri, how much do you think we spend on illegals in our entitlement social network scenario, what would you say in our social services, what would you say that number is?

C (20:19)

I don't even know if I could give you a number.

B (20:22)

Do you think it's more than a dollar?

C (20:24)

It's more than a dollar.

B (20:25)

More than a billion?

C (20:27)

Yeah.

B (20:28)

$182 billion is how much we spend on entitlement related programs that illegal immigrants take. You know how much that is per immigrant? If you assume that there are 11 or 12 million immigrants, this is by Pew Research. That's over $15,000 a year. Over $15,000 per illegal immigrant a year. And that doesn't really even include all the money the states spend either. So think about that. $182 billion. That could go a long ways towards helping pay some of our debt, insurance reducing, just a lot of that type of stuff. It's. And taxpayers are the one that's. That are doing it. Now some people will say, well, all of you know, these illegal immigrants pay taxes sometimes, right? Because they have jobs. In some way, they pay their taxes. That's a red herring. I want you guys to. You know what a red herring is? A red herring is where they're trying to make. You look at the shiny object over here where they're something over here. And that's a red herring because they're assuming if the illegals weren't there that those jobs wouldn't be done and therefore those taxes wouldn't be paid. Somebody would be doing those jobs that were necessary. So the fact that you say that illegals are paying taxes and therefore it cuts against the cost of them. No. The illegal immigrants in many cases are taking jobs away from US Citizens or people that are here legally, even if they are not US Citizen, but they have their green card, et cetera, what have you. And so that's why it matters. All right. I am all in favor of people immigrating here and being here legally, even if they don't want to be a citizen to get some type of work permit. I'm all in favor of that, but I am not in favor of people coming here illegally and getting front, in front of our own citizens and in front of other people who may not be a citizen but are here legally. That's, there's no way that that is the correct thing to do. And I think the big beautiful bill is taking some steps towards that. And obviously President Trump is doing that as well. I think They've already deported 250,000 people I've heard today, and another 60,000 are in detention centers. Now, does that mean they're going to get some people caught up that, you know, that are not, that shouldn't be in the detention center? Sure, that's, that's just the way things work. So, but overall, it is much better scenario doing that. All right, so let's talk a little bit about kind of off the bill just for a minute. Let's talk about, although it's kind of related to it in that tariff revenue, everybody keeps wondering about, what are we doing with the tariff revenue? Are we getting any money out of that deal? And in 2024, this is pretty interesting. So this is prior to Trump coming in, the average in 2024 was about 16, 6.4 billion per month in 2024 of tariff, which is taxes coming from imported goods. Okay. In 2025, it's been $16 billion a year. $16 billion a year. So that's pretty amazing when you think about it. 16 billion. I mean, sorry, per month. $16 billion per month. That's $10 billion more per month. That's revenue that goes to help pay for some of the things we talked about, the big beautiful bill. It helps, you know, pay down the deficit, those types of things as well. And that's from Politico. And Politico is, as you probably heard on here before, it's not a very conservative organization. So the fact that they're reporting that it's really pret. And who knows what's going to happen long term with tariffs. I believe I said the last time I was on here, I thought things would get pretty well settled by the end of the summer. I'm sticking with that, although the summer is fleeting away, but I'm still sticking that the majority of the issues will get handled by then. I don't think we'll get China totally under a long term agreement by that time, but I do think we'll get most of the scenario done by then. And, and I believe in the long run it's going to be a good deal. Again, I wish, and I think President Trump would be okay with this, although he hasn't asked my opinion. I wish we'd had no tariffs either side. So if you don't charge us any tariffs, we don't charge you any tariffs. Right. Just total free trade. That would be fine with me. We don't need to. We can compete. Our industries can compete head to head where they have trouble competing. Head to head is where a foreign government gives the industry, the similar industry in their country an advantage. And that's what President Trump's trying to level out. And the people that work for him and I think they're doing a really good job with that. I really do. I've been very impressed with how that's working. I know it's, you know, it's kind of made the markets a little bit uncertain. Although, you know, markets are up for the year and stock markets are up for the year and what have you. It's kept interest rates from coming down because we're not sure exactly what's going to happen on that. And I get that probably interest rates and some of you that listen to this won't even remember this, but interest rates actually went down way too quickly the last time. And I think that's what the Reserve chairman is trying to avoid, although I do think he's being too cautious and we certainly could use a reduction in interest rates. I think that would help the economy and there's some things that support that as well. In fact, the new inflation data just came out. The new inflation data for last month said inflation was at 0.3%. That's less than 3% a year is the way the annualized that, that they've had in the last 12 months. So that's we're in the right direction. In fact, I don't know if you even noticed or not, meat, poultry and eggs are actually down a little bit. And given our past discussions about the price of eggs, that's a really, really good thing. Car prices are down this past month 0.3%. So that's not much. But they're not going up. And that's new cars, used cars are down 1%. So all of that, those are really good signs for the economy because you remember when Covid came along and then when Biden put all that quote unquote stimulus in there, man, prices just went through the roof. Really went through the roof. And so the fact that they're settling down is a good thing now. It doesn't mean they're going to go drastically back to where they were in 2019. It just doesn't work like that. But the fact that they're staying pretty much the same or dropping a little bit, that's a good thing. We can plan for that. What we can't plan for is when we don't know how much things are going to go up.

A (27:23)

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B (28:33)

The one thing that I think and we talked about a second ago that I think is a little bit out of whack are mortgage rates. 30 year mortgage rates are 6.8%. That is keeping people, new homeowners from being able to buy. And I think you'll Continue to see that in the marketplace out there is that if you have a 3% mortgage, you can buy a whole lot more expensive house. And if it's a 6% mortgage, everybody understands that is twice as much interest you're paying. And most of the money you pay at first in your loan is interest based. Because if you have a $500,000 loan and you're paying 6%, $30,000 a year is in interest. And if your payment, let's say, is $3,000 and only 500 of that is going per month is going to pay on principal, most of it's going to pay on interest. And so I believe that if we could get interest rates below 6% in the 5% range, I think they could settle there. And the economy, the housing market and what have you would be good. That's for a 30 year mortgage, 6.8% for a 15 year mortgage, which is what I really encourage you to get. When you go out and buy a house, try to avoid the 30 year mortgage. You're paying so much interest up front and so little principal. I mean, it's just as it takes you 30 years to pay it off. And just think about you, you pay. If you bought a $500,000 house, by the time 30 years is up, you're going to have paid $1.5 million for that. Whereas if you do a 15 year loan, and again, these numbers aren't exact, so don't hold me exactly to them. For a $500,000 house, you're going to pay somewhere less than a million dollars for that, as opposed to 1.5 million over 30 years. If you can do a 15% loan, you're going to get a lesser interest rate. Cause it's only 6% as opposed to 6.8%. So I'd encourage you to do that. And I encourage Chairman Powell. I know you listen to Allie all the time. Chairman Powell, not. You should is. You should lower the interest rates. Lower the interest rates just a little bit, okay? It's going to be okay. The world's not going to go to hell in a handbasket. So anyway, that's some information that we put out on the big beautiful bill. I hope that helps you understand some myths. Please. You know, sometimes we just have to turn off the tv, turn off social media, turn off, you know, what we're hearing at our family picnics or reunions, whatever you're doing this summer, and just relax, okay? Things are in pretty good shape. I think the economy is going to be fine. We're Definitely not going to have a recession. I do not see that happen. Based on the information that we have today, your 401ks have done well this year. Any other investments you have have done pretty well this year. You should be able to get a job if you want to work. If not, you don't have the skill, then maybe you need to get some training. And there's a lot of on a job training that's available through your state, through the federal government, where you can be able to get training for specific jobs. We were, what, we were talking the other day about a general manager. How many. Most people here would have heard of Buc EE's? Bree, don't you think most people heard of Buc EE's no matter where they live in the country? Yeah, I think they've expanded outside of Texas.

C (32:01)

Yeah, a little.

B (32:02)

Bucky's, if you don't know, is this huge convenience store and they literally may have a hundred gas pumps. And it's not just a convenience store though, because people go in there shop. It's just a, it's a whole event. Any, anytime we go to out of town to see family and There's a BUC EE's on the way, that's a, that's a guaranteed stop. Well, a general manager of one of those buc ee stores which doesn't require a college degree, you could have one if you want to, but doesn't require it, can make over $200,000 a year. So you don't, don't believe that. Well, I got to go spend all this money to go to college to do that. If you want to do that, that's fine. I mean, there's no question that's a good thing to do. There's a lot, there's a lot of advantages to going to college even outside the education you get. But if you don't want to do that or you don't think you can afford to do that, and I definitely don't think you should go into debt to do it. There are plenty of job skills that you can get where you can make a very, very good income. And so I'd encourage you to do that. Now, we're going to talk a little bit, as I said, about the Epstein scenario. And it's, it's amazing that people are so fascinated with this. I remember, you know, when he got arrested a few years ago and then supposedly hung himself in the, in his own own cell and all that type of stuff. And then most of us on the right felt like Biden and Them were withholding information from us on what really happened. You know, not only in the cell, but who really was on these junkets with him. We know that President Clinton was on the airplane with him at least once. And we always thought there was this master list of people, right. That that had been to this island with him or wherever it was that he went and did all these crazy things. Remember Prince Andrew was involved in that from the UK Well, a few months ago, when President Trump took over this. Things like JFK files, things like the Biden laptop, Hunter Biden laptop, things like the Epstein files. Those were all under review at the time. And, you know, they've released a lot of the JFK files. We now know, obviously, the Hunter Biden thing, which we all knew was a total hoax, along with the Steele dossier. And people like Brennan and Comey and those guys were just so scummy. In fact, I'm not so sure that they didn't break some laws or certainly they did not follow what they should have. And the Epstein thing was a part of that. And the Department of Justice has reviewed that. They said there's no list there. There's no kind of smoking gun and really nothing left to release that they haven't already released. Well, there are people that say, you know, no, we don't, we don't buy that something. There's a fly in the buttermilk is what my grandmother would say when something was wrong. Well, I don't know if there is or not. All right. I do believe in our government ought to be transparent with us to the extent that they possibly can. They can't tell us every single thing that may have a effect on national security. I'm not sure this has an effect on national security. But President Trump, and he's right about this, I mean, he. Let's put the, let's put what he put up there today, if we can, on the screen. So President Trump, you can, you can. I won't read the whole thing, but basically is saying in this that the radical left Democrats have hit pay dirt again. And he's right. What happens is, is that again, they put the shiny. They found something that may be a little crack in the MAGA base and they put that shiny object on there and they are just, you know, pounding it. And we're in a lot of, some of us, some people, I wouldn't say us. I don't. But there are some on the conservative side that are believing that. But what he's trying to tell us here is it's Remember, these are the same people that did the Steele dossier, that, you know, the Hunter Biden thing, the Russia scam, all of that were promoted by these people. Well, as well. And all of that turned out to be lies. All right? And so now for us to believe what they're saying on the Epstein stuff is not good either. And so my belief is, is that, look, you know, it's not the most important thing in any of our lives. Right. It's okay for us to want it to be done. But I tell you what's a whole lot more important. What's more important is what's going on, you know, what went on with this tax bill and what have you that's a positive for us. What are we going to get done with the tariffs? What's going to happen between Russia and Ukraine? Those are the things that are much, much more important. Immigration, getting that under control, Those are much more important than the Epstein file. So I haven't paid a ton of attention to it and don't intend to. I kind of agree with President Trump and let's just, you know, whatever, let's move on. Let's put out there what we can that doesn't put the country in jeopardy and then let's move on. So I, I am just not going to get all hung up on that.

A (37:13)

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B (38:35)

We did get quite a few questions from it, Bri, when. When we had our. Ask our audience to send in questions, which we love doing, don't we? Yep, we love doing that. In fact, this last section of episodes that I host, and hopefully I'll host some more in the future. You never know, though. Allie's pretty tough critic. She may not let me back on. But anyway, we're going to call the last section of every episode that I host called Thoughts from the Wagon. And this kind of refers to my book, Life Lessons from the Little Red Wagon. If you haven't gotten that yet, I'd encourage you to buy that. Either, you know, you buy the book or listen to it on audible and all of that will be in the show notes when we get finished on how you can buy that. But we've got some really, really good questions, Bri, and I'm going to read them. And the first one, and I read these in order of importance.

A (39:20)

Right.

B (39:22)

This is from. Is it okay to say somebody's name if they put it on the thing?

C (39:28)

I wouldn't actually.

B (39:30)

This is from you know who you are. When are we getting Ron Merch? I want coffee mug that says and what have you. Which I suppose that's something I say a lot. And what have you. So when are we getting some Ron Merch? Ali, when you watch this show, we need to have you answer that question the next in your next episode. Okay. That's a very good question, by the way.

C (39:52)

New collab with Ron and Carly Jean.

B (39:55)

We could do that. Carly Jean should make some clothes for me to wear. That would be totally fine. I'd love that. I met them at Ali's conference last year, so they're great. Yeah. And don't forget, share the arrows if you don't have your tickets yet. Man, that thing is rocking. It's going to be incredible. And you want to get your tickets to Share the Arrows coming up in mid October. But you want to get your tickets now. Now I'm sure I'll be walking around doing something that maybe chasing down one of my grandkids or opening a door for somebody. So if you see me and you want to meet me, come up and say hi and we'll. We'll have a good time there. All right. How do you feel the United States should handle the situation with Russia? I think what we should do is what we're doing now as I was hopeful that, that Putin wanted to negotiate and get the thing over with, but evidently he wasn't. And so I think having NATO buy our weapons, remember, we're not giving them to NATO, they're buying them and then some of those countries are providing those to Ukraine. That's that I think that's the right thing to do. The other thing that I would do, and I heard Bill O'Reilly say this, and Bill O'Reilly, someone Ali had on here not too long ago, is that we should freeze all of the assets of the oligarchs and the generals in Russia. If you freeze their assets around the world, which we can do, because they all want to have their money in dollars. They don't want to have it in rubles, I can tell you that. And they don't want to have it in yon, you know, Chinese yon. They want to have it in US Dollars. And so if we freeze those assets around the world, I think those oligarchs and what have you would put the. I just said that again, didn't I? Would put the pressure on Putin to, you know, get this thing over with. Here's a very, very good question. Can one be pro life and pro death penalty? Absolutely. Pro life is about caring for those unborn that don't have a say in anything. You know, that we, we want babies to be able to get into this world and to be able to make it. Pro death penalty means that you're pro justice. And death penalty, first of all, is very rare in the United States and it's only used for the most heinous of crimes. And so I actually believe they should expand the death penalty. If they would have death penalty for rape, there would be a lot less rapes. I can tell you that right now. So I absolutely believe you can do that. I consider myself pro life and pro death penalty. I wish we didn't have to have the death penalty, but we do. I loathe that. I am asking. Okay. We've already talked about the Epstein files. Not talking about that anymore because I loathe that as well. Thank you. You, what's one piece of advice for raising kids who love the Lord as much as Ally does? Well, for guys, I can tell you it's to have a lord loving spouse. And I know I've said this before and you know, you might think I'm just saying it because it's my wife, but I'm just telling you I was very fortunate and Ally was very fortunate. All our kids were to have she was to have a mom, I was to have a wife that was so solid in her faith and so active in her faith. When I mean active. I mean she studied it, she reflected on it, she meditated on it, she prayed on it and she didn't preach. All right, my wife is definitely not a preacher. Now sometimes she'll preach to me because I need it, but she did it through her actions. And Allie and our kids and myself could see her in there every morning studying the word on her knees, praying and those types of things. I think that the kids, they remember so much of what they see in us than what we say. That's really what I think is now Allie going to a Christian school, sitting under some teachers and professors that sparked her interest in that also was a part of it. And of course the Holy Spirit is the most important. That they pricked her heart and gave her that. She's always had a fascination with learning. And the fact that that was channeled into learning about her faith and learning about what God says about this or what the Bible says about that, that's what's really important. How to prioritize your marriage with a new baby. You know, I remember this is a joke, of course, so just remember this, nobody get too upset. This is a joke in that I remember some comedian saying one time his kids were acting up and he's saying, hey, you know what? Mom and I made you, we can get rid of you and make another one. So just remember that your spouse is the most important part of the family relationship. And that's not to degrade or demean the kids importance, but your spouse and your, you know what, your children want it to be that way. All right? Now sometimes when they're 3, 4 years old and they don't really understand everything, you know, and they want all the attention, maybe they don't, you know, they may not process that, but I will tell you that ultimately they want mom and dad to get along. They want mom and they want to see mom and dad in a loving relationship. And so you have to prioritize your spouse, whether that's your husband or your wife. But we also have to be flexible and understand, especially guys when there's a new baby in the house, you got to understand, especially on the mom, that's a heck of a lot more that she has going on than you and I have going on when that's there. So we're going to have to be extra flexible, especially early on in that scenario. And do not be over demanding every time you want to demand something, why don't you think about how you could help helping something. That would be my best advice there.

A (46:09)

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B (47:37)

Oh, this is a good one here. Parenting young girl advice. Now, Bri, you might have opinion on this one as well. Ple. Please help me. My daughter is 5 years old and her sass is already real. Oh, I can tell you. Well, here's what I'll tell you. You may be raised another Ali Beth. So if there's any hope that you would like your daughter to turn out as adult like Ally, then I'd say there's a chance. Bree, what about you? You think your sass was real at age 5?

C (48:11)

I wasn't a sassy child.

B (48:13)

You were not.

C (48:13)

I wasn't. I was really quiet and well behaved. But my sister was. And that parenting tactic definitely was different for her than it was for me.

B (48:23)

I bet it was. Yeah. Yeah, I bet it was. I remember when. Because our two boys were probably like you. They were just kind of quiet, laid back. I'll never forget when Allie was. This is true. She was five years old. She's in the back of the car. I'm driving down the road. I know where I was. I was close to the Galleria in the. It was just a Dallas shopping mall. And she and I are having a conversation about something, but it was an argument. And she was arguing literally like an adult. I mean, which was a little scary to me at the time. And so the only way I knew to shut it down was at Ali Beth. I said this. I said, if you live to be an adult, which is in question, by the way, with your mouth, you're going to be a great adult. But, man, it was. It was tough at some point in time, and I probably didn't handle exactly right in a lot of situations. It certainly wasn't all her. But I think you just have to. Well, first of all, I think you have to make sure that they know that you are the parent. Yeah. And that they can't process everything you can process. But I do think you have to give them a little bit of. You don't want to all. You don't want to totally squelch out the fire.

C (49:27)

Yeah.

B (49:28)

You just don't want to.

C (49:28)

I would agree with that. Yeah.

B (49:30)

And you probably saw that at your house as well. So, anyway, okay, last thing. And we're going to be out of here again. Thoughts from the wagon. I think about what can I. You know, a lot of Ali's audience is younger than me, although there. I have plenty of my friends that listen to Allie all the time. We run into people all the time. That, that. So listen to your daughter, you know, once they find out, you know, who we are, who she is. But one of the advice I would give you is if you're as a young family or even a couple, if you. Even if you don't have kids, is spend money on memories, not on things. Like if I said to anyone on this episode, tell me all the things you got for Christmas four years ago, you couldn't tell me now, maybe if it was one of those once in a lifetime. I got a new, you know, a new car as a little kid, a new bike or something like that. Remember that? But you won't remember that, but I will tell you. Hey, do you remember that trip we took a few years ago to wherever. Right. Kids, remember that. So spend your money on memories, not on things. That would be my best advice for today. Thanks for listening. I've enjoyed being with you. Don't forget to get your tickets for Share the arrows. Buy Ali's book, Toxic Sympathy. Man, that thing has just taken off like wildfire. And lots of good thoughts and comments on that. And then if you want to have a good read and a fun read with some, I think some pretty good dad advice in there, life lessons from the Little Red Wagon. Have a good one see you next time. It.