All right. Hey, everybody. Boy, do we got a next level-sized long jumbo pod for you today.

A lot is happening in the news. And we've got some great guests lined up this week.

So we are ready for 2026. It is Monday. So we have our new segment we've been doing now on Mondays,

which is our mailbag. This is for Bullwork Plus members only.

So stick around at the end of show.

Bullark Plus members to get into the mailbag.

People asked if I'm a secret origami head.

You will hear the answer to that.

So thoughts on Hassan Piker and others.

So stick around for the mailbag. If you haven't joined Bullollart Plus yet, 2026, the time to do it. Go to the bulwark.com to sign up. We'd appreciate having you. You'll get these mailbags on Mondays, plus they're in JBL Secret Pot on Fridays and just a bunch of other great stuff. So we're doing our best to put in the work to make that valuable for all of you. We'd love to have you as part of the community. Up next, it is Monday. So you're

going to get Bill Crystal talking about I'm your host, Tim Miller. It is Monday. And so I've got editor at large Bill Crystal. Bill, no rest for the weary here. We got plenty to talk about today. I need to get to Tim Walls,

not running for reelection as governor of Minnesota and a bunch of other politics stuff at the end.

But since we were last together, we have orchestrated a coup in Venezuela, apparently,

with not a whole lot of plan for what's after that. I will say the most important subtext of the story is that we taped our New Year's predictions last year. And my prediction was that Trump was going to actually

do the Monroe Doctrine and go into Venezuela and or Greenland. And so it took three days for me to

be right. My other predictions, case you're wondering, was that Trump would have a health event

and that the Democrats wouldn't win the

Senate. So a mixed bag for people. Did you bet on that first prediction on the what's what's

that called polymarket? You could have been one of those guys who gets written up as having bet,

you know, X amount and made $10 trillion. Yeah. I'm not doing any insider trading, which is a loss for me.

So I have a lot to get from you, Bill.

I want to use your historical perspective.

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