Welcome back everybody from Thanksgiving holiday.

Clay and buck time. We got much to discuss with you.

Play, thank you for holding down the fort, making sure there's plenty of turkey to go around in my absence. I will say I think I I might have hit the limit for how much weight one could gain in 48 hours. I went I went all in in the paint my friend. Did you weigh yourself? Did you actually weigh yourself?

Play. Of course not. I don't weigh myself to the new year my friend.

I know there's a lot of nervousness for people getting out of the shower this morning

you know starting off return to work schedule that scale is there and a lot of

apprehensive glances in that direction. So we're definitely in recovery from Thanksgiving feast from the food comas that people may have fallen into.

I hope you all had an absolutely fantastic one.

And look, we basically have a bit of a sprint between now and the Christmas

holiday at the end of the year and Hanukkah and the New Year's and then we're just in the thick of the political cycle you know we're

what 49 days out right 49 days I think that's basically it yeah I think it's

whatever we'll call it just under 50 under 50 under 50 for the first

votes to be cast so this is all going to be happening very quickly we'll have

updates for you on that one. They're starting to I think

turn the machinery of destruction and defamation against Donald Trump more and more on the left. I think they're already starting to try to get an early look at their Trump arrangement syndrome mechanisms. I think they're trying to get them fired up as quickly as they can. So we'll talk about that. Some other interesting stuff going on.

We have New York retailers lost 4.4 billion due to organized shoplifting in 2022.

That's not even just off the cuff or sort of on the fly shoplifting.

That's organized retail theft, which is really just a form of organized crime, everybody.

Probably start calling it that.

Unise about people walking in at night near their home nationwide is at a 30-year high,

according to Gallup. I thought that was some unsettling but important data

we can dive into later on in the show. But Clay I know we've also got the shots

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