It's December 26th. I'm Brian Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, and this is The Wright Report.

A good day to you, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to The Right Report, Your Daily News, podcast.

A joyful day after Christmas to you all and a wonderful Hanukkah to everybody.

Today is going to be a day of rest for two very important people. You should know about them.

One is my sound engineer, Laura. She has got a wonderful husband and lovely children who probably

have not seen their mother or wife as much as they would probably like, because each day,

Laura is faithfully editing my podcast to ensure it is an absolute top-notch quality product.

For you all, she does that every day, including when she has been very, very sick and on vacation.

So she has earned some time off today.

The other person who needs a little bit of a breather, I would imagine, is Steph.

She is my sister.

In fact, she works with substack subscribers to unjam, say, problems with accounts or billing

or relay questions to me that I then answer either in private or on the podcast.

She has been such a saint and such a wonderful partner for me over the past year.

So while I will still be working and going through the news and answering questions and engaging

with folks on Substack, also preparing for future episodes, Laura and Steph are going to take a day

off. And I offer them so much gratitude for all

of their hard work over the past year.

Also, thinking of gratitude, I offer you all so much gratitude listeners right now who are on

their favorite podcast platforms or folks listening on their apps, the right report.substack.com website or

the app or folks out there who might have donated to the podcast over the past year via my

stripe. And then also, of course, a special note this morning of just deep gratitude as well

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