Wow. We're really going to start choosing the music on this show. What the hell is that?

I've got to get some Oreo speed wagon in here. Maybe some Tom Petty as I completely age myself once again.

All right, Coldplay. I'll do that. I could do it, too. I wonder if you know, I was walking by somebody uh reiss after my kid got out

i dropped him off a camp and i was going back to the parking lot and somebody was sitting in their car

and they had christmas music on still and i'm like nah you can't you can't do that you can't do

the whole December 25th the midnight midnight. That ends. No more.

I could barely tolerate it before Thanksgiving, but after Christmas, I know that New Year's Eve is coming up and it's still Christmas week, but I don't know.

There's something profoundly wrong with you if you listen to Christmas music after Christmas Day.

And then the lights thing, by the way, all right? This is for everybody in my neighborhood in my little town here in New Jersey. All right, this weekend, had the lights up. That's fine because you've got New Year's Eve on Saturday night. All right, the Sunday afterwards, you're not taking them down. But then the weekend after, I would expect you to be out there. I don't care how cold it is and get the lights down or at least shut them off. All right? I don't need this Valentine's Day and people still have their lights on. I don't know who you are. That's a big waste of electricity. And at that point, you're just putting off the inevitable, right? That's all I'm saying. We all know, we all have like one or two people in our immediate circle where we live that keep the Christmas lights on.

It's like St. Patrick's Day, and I still got a look at Santa Claus on a front lawn.

Like, no, no, it ends.

Joe Conchion from Mark Simone.

I'm often a lot of tangents today and venting for whatever reason.

My wife made coffee this morning, and she only made enough for herself before she left for work around 7 a.m.

So then I did a 5-something a.m. hit on Fox News. I'm a Fox News contributor. By the way, in a columnist for the Hill. So I joined Fox & Friends First this morning at 530 from my home studio. You know, there's Joe in his basement as in Biden. There's also Joe Concha in his basement, as in I'm not going into New York City at 5.30 in the morning and do a five-minute hit and spend an hour in a car. That just doesn't make any sense. So I got this little home studio thing, which works out well, sits in the back of my basement. Point is, after I'm done with a hit, you know, going on the air, then I could do two things at 5.30. I could do the responsible thing probably and work out, right?

Gym's open, I think, at five. So I very easily could do that, then come back, eat breakfast. That would be the smart thing to do, the thing that doesn't put off the working out thing. No, I go right back up because I'm already in my pajama bottoms. If you watch me on Fox early in the morning, if you think I'm in a suit, you're crazy.

All right?

I do have a tie on, and I do have a jacket on and a shirt, but below that, anything goes. All right? Clothing optional, let's face it, but I'm more of like a cotton pajamas kind of guy during the winter. So I just go right back up, take off the shirt, the tie, throw right back on whatever long-sleeve t-shirt I have on and it's back in bed until about 8 a.m. And then the kids, fortunately, are somewhat, somewhat self-sufficient. So even when my wife goes to work, they can do some things to let me sleep in a little bit. But the point is now, I don't know, I'm not quite on, and I'm just complaining about a lot of things. And I'm usually a very positive person. But there's a lot to complain about. I mean, let's face it. I mean, this country is in good shape, right? Our city and New York City is not in good shape. New Jersey, not in good shape. And yet midterms come and go, everybody had a chance to kind of change things like, you know, get Kathy Huckle out as governor because crime is skyrocketing throughout new york and obviously police are

resigning in record numbers and the ag and alvin bragg isn't doing his job as far as enforcing

the laws and the books and she still got reelected even though she basically refuses to debate

lealden did once on new york one but new york one isn't even seen upstate and that was it and

almost did no interviews and that's the thing now. That's what Democrats have learned. They have learned that they could do the basement strategy as it pertained to Joe Biden in the 2020 election and still somehow eke out these victories. Katie Hobbs in Arizona, I'm talking about by a very, very small margin and still being contested,

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