Well, well, well, hello again. We meet again at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner. Now I am the master.

Welcome to it. It is the 9th of July 2025. Happy podcast day. Let's get right into it so I can get

to bed because I got to get up early because the girls are on day three of swimming class.

And Bailey has reverted to refusing to jump in the pool, even plugging her nose.

She'll crawl in.

She won't jump in.

She's too scared.

So we've got to deal with that.

But there is a lot going on in the world outside of that.

The president of the United States is now coming around to the idea that maybe

Vladimir Putin is an evil human being in a lying sack of crap. He's basically a Democrat,

but he's in charge. That's essentially what the president said, and it's really an amazing circumstance that we are,

what are we, month six of this administration, and we've seen every single cabinet meeting

that this president had, every single cabinet meeting.

The last administration did they have cabinet meetings.

Did you get a photo op?

I think year one, you got a couple of photo ops, year two.

There was one, and then that was it.

You didn't know that they met.

They weren't even meeting with the president,

the cabinet secretaries.

Now there's a new book called 2024.

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