Welcome to my buddy, Crystal Cuyland friends. Today we have Mac, aka Good Politbuoy,

here with us. Thanks for joining us, bro. Appreciate it. Of course. Anytime. So first

all, everybody needs to check out his YouTube channel because he has an awesome YouTube

channel. He's super substantive. And as you're about to see here today, if you don't know, he's the man. So we got a lot of stuff to get to. And obviously, the Epstein files has been like, you know, it's taking everybody's time and everybody's attention. How many segments have you done on the Epstein file? I don't know. I mean, our entire show Monday was, was just absolutely and it was the most Matt can attest to this because he's very

much involved in the production

the most, Matt can attest to this because he's very much involved in the production, the most elements we have ever had in a show by far. Really? Yeah, because we wanted to just like go through everything, everything significant. Which you literally can't do because there's three million documents. So you have to pick. Yeah. Yes, correct. And what about how many how many things have you done on FCPy? I think I've only done like three at this point on the new wave that just came out. But yeah, it's been, it's been insane. It's been absolutely ridiculous. But we do have some other stuff to talk about today. I do think we have some FSI file stuff later. Melinda Gates, uh, basically going at her ex-husband, Bill Gates, giving like the classic female response after a divorce, which is like, I feel fucking awesome. I feel amazing. This guy was a piece of shit. I feel it's, I never felt better. So I think that clip is hilarious. We'll talk about that. But before we get to that first, let's start with Trump. He did an interview the other day with, I don't know why they get like the D tier guys for the interview. Did you see this? I never even heard of this guy and he somehow

got an interview with the president. But it's probably because Trump knows other ones might hold him a little bit accountable. Yeah. So he's like, I won't do that one. I won't do that one. And then they're like, what about this fucking D-lister? And he's okay. I mean, in fairness, though, I also just like don't really know all of the big news guys.

So it could be that this is like a well-known person.

I think it's not.

It's definitely not. It's NBC. And so this guy, I don't know who he is, but definitely Trump, like, rejected. Who else do they have at NBC now? I mean, Kristen Walker is their Sunday show. I'm sure she was rejected. She asked him- questions. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So anyway, asked about the economy and his reaction here is like preposterously bad. Take a look. The polls on the economy aren't, they're not great. They should be great. They should be. So why aren't they? If you believe that. I don't know. You know, at the end of that clip, the I don't know is actually, that's almost more honest than I've ever seen him before. Yeah. Because there's an embedded acknowledgement of like, yeah, I know the economy. The polls are terrible. I mean, even him acknowledging, Mac, that the polls are bad is like, normally you just make stuff up. He lies. He just like a cat turd pole or whatever. He'll say, well, that's what you're saying. But I've seen many other people are saying different things than you are.

Yeah, he usually would try to BS his way out of it. So it is interesting. Like, he might be feeling it in some sense. I think you're right. I think you probably is feeling it. And we actually just got some new numbers. Let me throw this up on the screen here. January layoff surged to 17 year high, 17 year high.

U.S. employers announced

108,435 layoffs in January up 205% from December, and the highest January total since 2009.

That was the Great Recession. According to Challenger, Gray, and Christmas, the surge was led by

transportation with UPS planning up to 30,000 job cuts and tech driven mainly by Amazon's 16,000 planned layoffs.

Healthcare also saw notable reductions, loss of contract and economic uncertainty were the main drivers, while AI accounted for 7% of cuts.

Hiring plans were weak, with just 5,306 announced the lowest January

level on record. Yeah. Well, and I think a lot of what's going on in the economy, too,

is the layoffs are up, but even more than that, companies are just not hiring and then not

replacing people who leave or get good jobs or different jobs

or retire or whatever. And that's Amazon, they just did a big white collar layoff. But they've

also said that their plan over the longer term, and this was New York Times got like leaked

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