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A pleasure to have you.

Thanks. I appreciate you stopping by.

There's a lot going on. There's a lot to talk about on a Wednesday.

We got Carrie Lockheed here, Polos get it done, see him in the house, and three hours of great radio coming your way or video depending on how you're

ingesting the program again thank you so much to the new listeners who are out

there in North Dakota Tampa Florida in Tucson Arizona really do appreciate all of

you I know in Tampa you're hearing his

lives who would love for you to jump into the fray and get involved. I wanted to

start with something that furthers the notion that this is a not very

transparent administration.

Carrie, you know how I knew that it wasn't a very transparent administration?

Oh, how so?

They keep on saying how transparent they are.

I mean that to me, if you have to keep telling me how transparent you are you probably aren't. It's like somebody who's a crazy person will constantly tell you I'm not crazy. I'm not crazy. I'm not crazy. You're crazy. I'm not crazy I'm not crazy you're crazy I'm not crazy I'm not crazy

you're crazy I'm not crazy you call me crazy you start thinking about the person might be

crazy so this administration from day one has been saying we've done the work, we've got the toolbox and we're very transparent.

And then it turns out Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense, had prostate cancer, had surgery for his prostate

cancer in December, December 22nd, complications arose right at the beginning of the

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