I'm Alex Marlow, editor in Chief of Brightport News, and this is the Brightport News Daily podcast.

Silicon Valley Bank

imploded over the weekend. It was a direct result of the Biden inflation and perhaps an indirect

result of wokeness. Other banks are going under as well. Some type of backstop or bailout is inevitable,

which is unpalatable to populace. It's scary stuff and pretty disturbing and it's just getting started.

Also in the news, the Oscars went pretty much as you expected. It was an unfunny and smug show with a

left-wing agenda where artsy movies with limited broad appeal won the big awards. Tom Cruise and

James Cameron didn't even bother to show up and for good reason.

There's a run on the border in Arizona and El Paso.

We're moving into illegal migration season and this is going to be a big deal for the next few months.

World freedom is in steep decline.

We give the details on that and we have much more in the opening of the show.

We have a great guest today, Sean Spicer,

former White House Press Secretary, current Newsmax host, and the author of the new children's book from Brave called The Parrots Go Bananas. His book was pre-canceled by Amazon, and now it's back,

perhaps thanks to Breitbart. We explain all that. Plus talk about the book and the state of children's education and entertainment.

He does important work and is well worth your support.

Let's take a listen right now.

Thank you. Silicon Valley Bank services a lot of the tech industry, services a lot of startups, a lot of

venture capital firms.

It's kind of where most of the money is there.

And basically, over the last 10 years or so interest rates, really 15 years, have been incredibly

low.

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