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Spot On with Link Lauren
Meghan Markle’s Financial Woes, White House Correspondents’ Dinner Attack, and King Charles’ Arrival
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This week on Spot On, Link Lauren is breaking down the biggest headlines dominating the news cycle, from a shocking White House security scare to Royal family drama and the viral Labubu controversy. We start with breaking news out of Washington, D.C., where a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner left a Secret Service agent injured and raised serious concerns about security surrounding President Donald Trump. Then, President Trump hosts King Charles III and Queen Camilla at the White House in a historic visit packed with political symbolism, global attention, and major implications for U.S.-UK relations. Meanwhile, Prince Harry is making headlines after clapping back at critics during his Ukraine trip, addressing ongoing questions about his royal status. At the same time, new reports about Meghan Markle and Prince William’s control over royal finances are reigniting debate about why Harry and Meghan left the royal family. Back in the U.S., reality TV star Spencer Prat...
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I am traveling today, hence the new background. This wall has a bunch of woke ridiculous text on it. So I was running around the hotel room. I only had a few options. Where am I going to sit to do this podcast? But a lot happened over the weekend. A lot occurred over the weekend with the White House correspondence dinner with the shooter. We're going to break down. I have all the information on the suspect right now who is in custody. We should know more over the next few hours as well because obviously it's Monday and today they're going to have the arraignment. By the time you watch this as well, King Charles and Queen Camilla will have touched down in Washington, D.C. here in the United States of America to see President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump. So this is going to be an incredible state visit. I'm so happy that it's continuing on because we can't let bad people ruin our fun and ruin everything else going on in our lives. I think that's part of the reason President Trump wants to continue and have the White House correspondence dinner at some point in the next 30 days. Because we can't sit and cower and allow these people to ruin our lives, these deranged leftists who are radicalized on the Internet, in my opinion. I will give you all of that. Before we sat down as well, First Lady Melania Trump called out Jimmy Kimmel. I was so happy to see this. Okay, we have her statement. We have Jimmy Kimmel's comments about her becoming a widow, which I found disgusting and vile and just so gross and low down and dirty. So we have all of that and more, but we gotta pay some bills really quickly. We have a 60 second ad without any teleprompter. Pray for me and then we'll be right back with Hot Topics. Have you gotten caught up in the red light mask craze but you just don't see results? It's cause those masks don't work because well, they can't work compared to what doctors use. 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Again, that's code linkightstem.com by now, I'm sure most of you have heard about what transpired over the weekend at the White House correspondence dinner. But I want to start with Jimmy Kimmel's recent comments. So Jimmy Kimmel did a mock White House correspondence dinner where I guess he pretended he was the comedian and he was up there at the podium and he made these horrific comments about First Lady Melania Trump becoming a widow. I found them disgusting, gross and so low down and dirty. Let's take a look real quick. Our first lady Melania is here. Look at more. So beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow. How is that a joke on abc? He would never do that to a member of his own party. He would never do that to Barack Obama, Michelle Obama. He'd never do that to Bill or Hillary Clinton. But because it's President Trump, because they are Republicans, because they view President Trump as Hitler, fascist, threat to democracy, everything they've called him for years, they can get away with these jokes. And as we've talked about before. Jimmy Kimmel has over a dozen writers. By some estimates he has 18 or 19 writers who work on that show and look over every single line, every single thing he's going to say. So when he goes out there and he makes disgusting, vile comments about our first lady losing her husband, that has been approved by a bunch of people, okay? There is nothing that goes on, nothing that goes out at that network that is not approved by abc, in my opinion, okay? You have that many cooks in the kitchen, it doesn't just end up in the teleprompter. Right? Jimmy Kimmel isn't sitting there writing all of his own jokes. So Jimmy Kimmel, you're gross. Jimmy Kimmel also made jokes after Charlie Kirk's assassination. He continues to show us exactly who he is. Shows us he's this partisan political hack who lives in Los Angeles in an urban elite enclave. And he looks down on working class Americans. He looks down on the rest of the country. And that really is the crux of the issue with many of these late night hosts. They live in these ivory towers and they're not like Johnny Carson, they're not like Walter Cronkite, they're not like legends we had back in the day. They view themselves as political activists, many journalists, many people in media. They view themselves as political journalists, political activists instead of folks who are just sitting behind a microphone, grossly overpaid to talk for an hour. Okay? That's exactly who they are. But they've gotten way too big for their britches. So First Lady Melania Trump, before we sat down, she actually put out a statement calling out Jimmy Kimmel. I'm going to read you the entire thing. Kimmel's hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn't comedy. His words are corrosive and deepen the political sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn't have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate. A coward. And Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC's leadership enable Kimmel's atrocious behavior at the expense of our community? Shout out to First Lady Melania Trump for that strong statement. You have to call these people out, right? Every once in a while you got to remind people who the heck you are. This is the first lady of the United States. Her husband has now had multiple assassination attempts. Three assassination attempts. Thomas Crooks and Butler Ryan Ruth on the golf course down in Florida. And now Cole Allen at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. Jimmy Kimmel has the audacity to get on national television, on abc, which is owned by Disney, a massive conglomerate, and joke about her becoming a widow. I also have to point out, right, Barron Trump, he is a young man. He has grown up in all of this. In all of this. He's seen his father be on the receipt receiving end of assassination attempts. President Trump has many other children and grandchildren, right, who have to witness these things and see them on television and wait to find out answers. Is Grandpa okay? Is dad okay? So, Jimmy Kimmel, I hope you find your heart. I hope you do some soul searching. I hope you go to church. I hope you pray, because I find you to be very, very, very disgusting. Very disgusting to joke about a woman whose husband has been the victim of multiple assassination attempts and say she's going to become a widow. And then to foreshadow the White House correspondence dinner where, guess what? They tried to take his life again. And there are no ifs, ands or buts about it. So let's move on. Okay, let's move on to the White House Correspondent's Dinner. The New York Times and other outlets, they've released statements saying they really don't know the motive. We're still trying to figure out the motive of the shooter. He had a manifesto. He had a manifesto where he basically laid out that he hates the. The president. He hates President Trump. He wrote horrific smears and disgusting things about him, things that weren't true. Right. Objectively, we can put partisan politics aside. The things he wrote in the manifesto about the president were not true. And then he showed up to try to kill him and all of the people who work for him there at the event. Okay, you had the vice president, you had the highest level members of the cabinet, you had diplomats and other people who keep the country running all in one space. We find out that he was allegedly staying in the hotel. So obviously, there's some issue going on with security. There are still more measures that need to be taken. I love the Secret Service. Have so much respect for the Secret Service, especially Sean Curran, who runs everything, who's been there with President Trump forever. But I think there will be some type of referendum or meeting to look into the White House Correspondents Dinner. And I think every single person should have been checked in the hotel. I can tell you from personal experience, you guys, I've been to presidential debates. I went to the presidential debate in Philadelphia between Kamala Harris and President Trump to even get into the Warwick Hotel, okay, it was a pain in the ass. But everyone in the lobby had to have their bags searched and checked. There wasn't a person staying in the hotel who wasn't thoroughly checked. Had to walk through multiple times, get wanded, empty everything. And so if we have to do that for the White House correspondents when they have it again this dinner, then that's what we're going to have to do. Because you can't have people staying in a hotel where you're having a high profile event and you don't know what they brought in with them. You don't know their motives, you don't know who they are. There are some other folks I read online who checked into the hotel and they weren't searched either. And so I have such respect for the Secret Service. I believe that room, I believe that room was secure. Okay? I do believe that room was secure. I don't think anyone was going to it to the President in that room with the way every single door was guarded. And you had men who were dressed in plain clothes, right. Who were at some of the tables just in case anything happened. But you got to check who's in the hotel and you got to see what is going on now. Cole Allen, we're looking at this footage. The President, the First Lady, Caroline Levitt, the White House Press Secretary who's nine months pregnant. They should not have to crawl off stage. This is not the world we should be living in. But the reason these things happen is because someone like Cole Allen, who we're looking at on the screen, was radicalized in these online far left groups. And we see this time and time again. You can look at some of his old tweets, people are pulling up some of his old posts. You can actually just read his manifesto. So we know exactly who Cole Allen is. This is someone who is probably taking in all this propaganda on the Internet. And as I've said before, if you go on the Internet, they call Trump Hitler a fascist threat to democracy. They say he is a threat who needs to be taken out. And there are actual polls that show 25% of liberals believe, believe political violence is justified. Right. That number is much, much, much smaller on the far right. So the far left, that's why we see over and over these acts of violence. And these people who are radicalized online, you can see Tyler Robinson, Luigi Mangione and others, they become heroes to a certain sect of the population. They become folk heroes on for doing these horrific Violent acts. And so Cole Allen, he probably sees himself as a martyr, as some sort of martyr for the cause to take out President Trump. It's all very sick and he'll probably be locked away for life. But what's also important to point out, he's a teacher. He's an educator. I believe he was named Teacher of the month or Teacher of the year. He's a 31 year old man from California. Torrance, California. This is who is teaching your children, okay? And this is why I tell all of my moms and dads and parents, I have been in these classrooms. I've been in the classrooms with these radical far left teachers, okay? I went to school in New York City, I've been in these classrooms, okay? Especially the part time adjunct professors who come in and they have nothing to lose. So if you're a parent, you really got to look into who is teaching your children. Every single day we talk about the indoctrination in schools and people say, oh, you're being inflammatory. You're making it too big of an issue. It is not too big of an issue when you have a teacher, a teacher who looks happy, go lucky and fine, who is online at home every single night on Blue sky taking in this leftist propaganda and then he shows up with guns and weapons to try to kill the President of the United States. Right? That is who Cole Allen is. And so I think so many teachers need to be looked into. I think parents need to look into who is spending eight hours a day with their students. You send your kids to school, they are there all day long. All day long. I'm kind of becoming a fan of homeschooling at this point. Homeschooling, alternative schooling. Because unless you really know, unless you really know who's teaching your kids, I would just think twice about who you're putting them in front of for eight hours a day. And I know many of you who watch me are teachers and educators. I have a huge great group of women who are teachers who support me and I love them and they're incredible. But they will tell you some of their co workers are wacky, kooky, you know, fruit loop liberals on the far left. And they sit on Blue sky, which is sort of their go to social media network, and they gin up all of this hatred. And so let me read you just a little bit more about Cole Allen, okay? So the manifesto laid out plans to target Trump officials, prioritized from highest ranking to lowest, armed at the checkpoint with a shotgun, a handgun and knives, wounded secret service agent who was saved by vest hospitalized and stable custody. The FBI has secured his California home and the arraignment is expected Monday today. So we should know more over the next few hours. We don't have any more information right now about what is going to happen to him. We do know the charges based on what Jeanine Pirro said and other experts, so it'll be interesting to see what happens. But I'm glad someone like him is no longer roaming the streets. But I have to tell you, this doesn't seem like a person who would be diagnosed as crazy, right? If he had gone to a therapist six years ago, six months ago, a year ago, I don't think he would be diagnosed as a crazy person. I think he was radicalized on the Internet by this propaganda and views himself as a hero. I think he views himself as doing a public service and a public good and therein lies the really, really scary part. But I want to move on to the Royals and something a little more fun. Go grab your cereal box and check the ingredients. Refined sugar, artificial dyes, chemicals you can't even pronounce. That's not real food. That's engineered. 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So I think he's very excited from what he has said publicly, he is very excited for them to come and spend some time here in the United States. I'm so excited to sing King Charles and Camilla, they have been in power and they've been working in public life for so many years, but very seldom do they ever come to the United States. So it'll be very exciting. I heard that the last time this happened was 2007. Don't quote me on that. Don't quote me on that. But it'll be interesting to see the interaction because you have two men who are close in age who've both been in the public eye basically their entire lives in very different circumstances. Two men on the world stage who are put under a microscope and watched very closely. And they both had such love and respect, obviously for Queen Elizabeth ii, King Charles mother and I actually, you know, one thing I wonder about King Charles and if you had a chance to ask him a question, I want to know what is the difference between their style? Right. King Charles, he watched his mother be in power for so long, from age 25 till I believe she was 96 years old. She just had her 100th birthday last week. What things did King Charles glean and learn from watching his mother? What are some things in her leadership style that he has changed? So it's interesting. I'd love to hear from King Charles on that. But he and President Trump, I'm sure will be having the time of their lives. And Queen Camilla will be over here with our first lady. And we're going to try to move on from the horrific incidents of the weekend. One thing about the news cycle, it moves on very quickly. And us as Americans who consume media, we're expected to sort of move along with it. Now, someone I wish would move along is Prince Harry. So Prince Harry, he's back in the news because he went over to Ukraine. And I guess now this. This war has been going on since February of 2022, but he's decided he's gonna be the one to bring peace between the Ukrainians and the Russians, between Putin and Zelensky. He's gonna be the one to really get to the bottom of it. Okay? He's gonna be able to solve it. So he goes over there to give a speech because he's a disaster tourist. This is what he does. If there is any type of war zone, or even after the Pacific Palisades fire, you know, he and Meghan were traipsing through people's front yards. So Prince Harry, I guess he thinks he's gonna be the one to secure some type of peace deal. No one else has been able to, but he's going to. And he was actually asked about how he. A working royal. And we have the clip. Let's take a look. Harry, do you recognize that phrase? Not a working royal. Do you recognize that description of you? No. I will always be part of the royal family. And I'm here working and doing the very thing that I was born to do. And, you know, and I enjoy doing it. I enjoy being able to do these trips and come and support the people that I've met before, the friends that I've. That I've. That I've. That I've met, and hopefully bringing attention to issues that, you know, for one reason or another, drop out of the news because something else has popped up. Thank you. Cheers, guys. Okay, first things first. Breaking down his statements, I heard him say he really enjoys doing these trips. Of course he enjoys doing these trips. He wants to get out of the house and away from Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Soho House, okay? The Duchess of Montecito, he's so happy to be out and away from her. And Doria and her friend Marcus Anderson, he wants to get out, okay? He'd rather go to war zones in Ukraine and do this sort of disaster tour than be alone at the compound with her and the two kids. Okay? So Prince Harry, he's out, and I guess he really thinks he's this mover and shaker on the world stage. He's Mr. United Nations. Everything these two touch turns to dust, okay? None of their business ventures are successful. Nothing they do ends up successful. They've basically been run out of Hollywood at this point. Nobody wants to throw them a check anymore. And so it's very interesting to see him try to become this real global world leader. And people are going, you're not really royal anymore. You're basically a private citizen with the reality show and a wife who wants to be an influencer. That's it. That's all of who you are. Now moving on to a Meghan Markle story. We have the story here in my notes. According to Radar Online, I also heard this from Dan Wooten. I was on his show last week, if you want to go and watch that. Meghan Markle, one reason she wanted to leave the royal family, allegedly she heard that Prince William, when he became king, he would be in charge of the purse strings. And then little George, Prince George, when he becomes king someday, hopefully I'm still around. Are we still going to be around when that happens? He would then be in charge of delegating and doling out the purse and what trips you get to go on. And Meghan Markle wasn't going to have that, right. Meghan Markle was like, no, no, no, no, no. I'd rather go sell jams, jellies and dog biscuits than have Prince George tell me what to spend. So let me read you. So Radar Online reports Meghan reportedly wanted out of royal life after learning that Prince William would ultimately control the couple's funding. The claim suggests concerns over long term financial dependence, with William, the future king, effectively overseeing how much money Meghan and Prince Harry would receive for the rest of their lives. While a source close to Meghan denied the narrative, the report ties the alleged tension to the couple's eventual 2020 royal exit and push for financial independence outside the monarchy. So I believe this. I think Meghan Markle, she really has been on her own for most of her life. She probably said, you know what? I don't want these people in charge of our finances. And we also heard stories, even back in 2018 when they went to Australia for the first time, she allegedly wanted to be paid for that trip. And they wanted to sort of mesh and intertwine the private sector, public sector, and you just can't do that. That's not what the Queen was about. It's not what the monarchy had ever done. If you're in a public role, if you're a member of the royal family, you don't dine out on your title. You don't use your title to sell candles with your kids names on it. You don't do low down, dirty, scummy things like that. But Meghan Markle, as we saw in the recent Australia tour, they would do some sort of philanthropic events and then some event she was paid for, like the women's Retreat. And I believe back in 2018 that's what they wanted to do. I think they wanted to get paid and make money while on royal tours. And it's either all in or all out. It's either 100% one way or nothing. And that's the way the Queen ran the show. It's how King Charles runs the show and it's how Prince William will run the show when he is king someday. In my opinion. I think Prince William will be even tougher. He'll be even tougher than King Charles. I think Prince William has no time to entertain Harry, Meghan or their delusions or their insanity. And I do believe he will either strip them of their titles or remove them from the line of succession or really, really push them out in a way that is important and influential because you can't have people going out there and using their titles to speak at women's retreats with, you know, a smattering of people in the crowd that Women's Retreat wasn't utter calamity. So that concludes our royal roundup. I'm so excited for King Charles and the Queen to touch down and I hope they have an incredible time. And I'm also excited that now people are seeing more of who Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are. 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No, but anybody's going to be better than Karen Bass because her fire hydrants did not even have water in them. Okay, Karen Bass, she was over in Africa, in Ghana, on some type of Eat, Pray, love walkabout journey as LA was burning to the ground. Okay, so we've seen where her priorities lie. Okay, you're over on a different continent and she was allegedly told before she left that things were not good, that things were dire and she still got on an international flight. So Karen Bass, she's got to go. Okay, Karen trash. Karen Basuda. So she's out. And Spencer Pratt has my vote. I also know Spencer Pratt a little bit. We're friendly with each other. We run into each other and we're sort of social media friends. And I love when people from social media, when people from reality television can come up in politics. President Trump had a hit reality show with the Apprentice. He was not A political figure. He was not part of the Bush dynasty or anything like that, the Clinton dynasty. He was a citizen who decided he was gonna run and he was gonna win. And so we have this video on screen of Spencer Pratt. And I love Spencer Pratt and his wife Heidi. And I'm the type of person who thinks you shouldn't be shackled by choices you made in your past. If you were on a reality show, if you said things on the reality show that you cringe and don't stand by, now, that's okay. You're allowed to evolve. And I think us as Americans are very forgiving, very understanding, and we love people with their warts and all and all their imperfections. That's part of what makes life interesting. And so Spencer Pratt, people try to pull up old clips, clips and say, oh, look at him on this reality show. Who cares? Who cares? You walk around Washington, D.C. half the congressmen and senators are up to no good. Nobody's, you know, been perfect little church boys their whole life. And so we want someone with grit who can get the job done. And if you continue with the status quo, I don't see Los Angeles getting better. Right. You can't do politics as usual time and time again. And so I'm excited for Spencer Pratt. And the point of the segment is also to tell you he has allegedly raised more money than her. I looked before we sat down. I think he's raised over 500,000. She's a little under 500,000. And so I think because he has all this support for social media and he knows how to harness the people and really build this populist movement, that's why he's able to generate funds. There's something almost a little Bernie Sanders about the way. From a political perspective, it's a little Bernie Sanders in that sense that he's sort of this outside anti hero who's not a part of the establishment. And I imagine most of his donations are small donations and people chipping in. Five bucks here, ten bucks there, and really supporting him. But unlike Bernie Sanders, I hope he wins. Okay? Unlike Bernie Sanders, I actually hope Spencer Pratt wins. Okay? So, Spencer Pratt, you have my vote. Unless you come up with some crazy policy that I haven't seen yet, you have my vote. And I hope Los Angeles really turns around because, you know, we hate on California all the time. I love California. I have great friends who live in LA and Orange county and Laguna and all over the state, you know, And California gets a bad rap because of Gavin Newsom and his wife and some of the leadership there. But I do believe you can turn it around because California has some of the most beautiful scenery and outdoors and hiking and beaches and so many incredible people who unfortunately are stuck living under this kind of leadership. And that's why they're late. That's why they're leaving. So I'm excited to see what happens with California. Now, this next story I touched on a few days ago on social media. Some of you, you might be going to jail. Okay? You might be going to prison. I hope you are packed. You're ready for your Shawshank redemption moment. Okay? Ready to dig a tunnel. Because if you purchased a labubu, a labubu, it was allegedly made with slave labor, okay? Slave labor apparently made these labubus. If you don't know what they are, we'll put them up on the screen. They became these viral sensations back in 2025. Women, children, celebrities, pretentious gay men. They were all purchasing these labo boos. I didn't understand the craze, ok? I don't have toys. I don't collect any toys. You guys, get your minds out of the gutter. But no, I don't have anything like this. I was never into the labubus, but I remember going to restaurants and seeing women with fancy handbags. And they had their labubus on the handbag. But you might need to put your labubu in the la garbage, okay, the storage. Because the New York Times came out with a piece a few days ago that according to their studies and some other independent studies, the cotton used for the labubus is from Xinjiang, China, where allegedly they do forced labor and slave labor. And you're not supposed to be importing or using this in the United States. Let me read you what's going on. So they're facing backlash after an investigation found that many contain cotton linked to China's Xinjiang region, which is banned in the US over forced labor concerns. Labor rights groups also allege exploited factory conditions, including underage workers, unsafe labor practices tied to the doll's production. Now, despite the controversy, they remain popular. They remain very popular. And so it'll be interesting to see what happens with the labubus. But I also find the irony here and the hypocrisy very astounding, because as you guys know, I built my career mostly by calling out these ridiculous elite celebrities and really speaking up for so many of you. Working class American, most of the country, right? They don't have expensive handbags. They're not driving expensive cars. But so many celebrities, okay, they would put these labupus on their Hermes Birkin bags, okay, which go for tens of thousands of dollars. Some of them are up in the hundreds of thousands. They put these labupus on their expensive handbags. And then you have folks like Billie Eilish and Lady Gaga who are all the kind of pretend humanitarians. Remember Billie Eilish? She tried to tell us, you know, we're all living on stolen land. We're all on stolen land. And then the tribe came out and said, yeah, you too, sweetie. You're living on our stolen land. And so Billie Eilish, the fact that she's been pictured with a labo boo, I just think it's hilarious because all of these celebrities love to virtue signal. You guys, you're walking around, okay, with a little slave labor la boo boo on your handbag and keychain. So I'm just not going to take you guys seriously anymore. And it's almost like when my friends who are vegan or vegetarian or sitting there, you know, wearing leather belts or people who say, oh, I don't like to wear fur, but then they're scarfing down a ribeye at dinner, it's like, okay, you say you don't wear fur, but you're scarfing down filet mignon, you know? So I just don't want to hear any of the hypocrisy anymore. I'm just not going to take it seriously. I'm tired of all the virtue signaling. But these celebrities, they get up on their soapboxes and they want to preach to the rest of us how to live. And then they go back to their rich celebrity enclaves like Jimmy Kimmel and Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish. And so this story just sort of hits the core of everything I love to cover. You guys are walking around with keychains made from slave labor, okay? Chinese slave labor. And you have the audacity to say, pay people an equal wage. We all need to be humanitarians. The call. The call is coming from inside the house. The call is coming from inside the house. So I don't take any of you seriously. Well, my friends, thank you so much for tuning in to Spot on with Link. Lauren, I hope you are doing well. I know the world seems like a scary place right now when we're scrolling through our phones, when we're looking at the mainstream media, we're consuming all of this news. As human beings, we are not meant to consume this much news on a daily basis, okay? We are not meant to. I Heard one study where we're basically only supposed to hear 11 or 12 big news stories a year. Now we have a big news story every single day. Okay, 2026 isn't even half over. And we've lived through how many once in a lifetime events this year? Okay, I need things to slow down. I need things to slow down. But one thing I hope we can give you on this show is a little reprieve, a little respite, a little break, a mini vacation so you can have a drink, unwind, you know, even if it's a mocktail, just for a little bit and escape. We need a little bit of escapism. And there's nothing wrong with saying so. So I love you all. We will see you back on Wednesday. Be well. Bye. And Doug, there's nowhere I wouldn't go to help someone customize and save on car insurance with Liberty Mutual. Even if it means sitting front row at a comedy show. Hey, everyone, Check out this guy and his bird. What is this, your first date? Oh, no. We help people customize and save on car insurance with Liberty Mutual together. We're married. Me to a human, him to a bird. Yeah, the bird looks out of your league. Anyways, get a quote@libertymutual.com or with your local agent. Liberty. 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