All righty, hello and everyone, welcome to it.

It is the last day of July 2025.

I hope you had a good July.

August is better, but I hope you had a good July.

I'm Derek Hunter. This is the Derek Hunter podcast for Thursday. Let's get to it. Oh, don't forget

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week is all we ask. Can't go wrong. go wrong well you could go wrong but you're not going

wrong all right let's get to this so we can get through this we got big economic news this morning

um the gross domestic product just keeps on going the hits just keep on coming all that doom and gloom that

we were promised hasn't happened. In fact, I'd ask you this simple question. And we know the answer, but

next time you get some obnoxious leftist who just can't stop whining about Donald Trump,

who you just wish would go away but won't.

Ask them where all the doom and gloom is that they have been predicting since 2016.

Economically. Where is it? What happened to it? We were promised recessions. We were promised stock market crashes.

We were promised eating canned goods, you know,

hoarding animals so we could eat them having to forage for nuts and berries. We were told that we

would be screwed by now. Instead, you wake up yesterday morning and you get this about the GDP.

Up 3% of 3% better than expected. That would be the highest

level since the third quarter of 24 when it was up 3.1%. Up 3%. I was promised a recession.

Waiter, excuse me, I ordered this economy to be a recession, if you don't mind.

Now, of course, nobody knows the future.

But the difference is normal people admit we don't know the future, whereas there is an entire,

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