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Guys, the last time we were together, there were throngs of ignoring fans.

They cheered at everything that we said. They laughed at all of our

jokes. Candice was there. Dennis Prager was there. Jordan Peterson was there. Now we can't even get

Ben Shapiro to actually show up. It's just, I'm just saying, it's a little anticlimactic. It's a bit of a

letdown. So the big news today, obviously, is that the United States is absolutely not, in no way, shape, or form entering into a recession. The very people who created the definition of recession have now changed the definition of recession. You know, it's actually a very modern word. In the beginning of the 20th century even, as recently as the early 20th century, there was no such concept as an economic

recession. And if you look at the average age of our political class now, it's likely that the

actual human beings who came up with the term itself are now saying, no, absolutely nothing

to see here. And yet, obviously,

if you aren't living in Iraq and if you don't make as much money as I do, you're probably

experiencing an increase in prices. You know, milk must be up to like thousand. A little less.

Milk has gone way up. You know, oil has more than doubled.

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