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Welcome back to a numbers game.

Thanks for being here.

Happy Friday, everybody.

Okay, before we get into some data on the episode,

I want to talk about a little backlash that I'm dealing with.

I landed myself in some hot water, which, you know, so rare for me, that I, but I have to address. So I wrote an op-up of the Daily Wire. My buddy Ben Dominic is the opinion editor there. He's on Fox. You've seen him probably, you know, if you watch the network. And he asked me to write an opinion piece. And I was and I was lucky enough to get to the airport early

because of all these lines, and there was no lines,

so I had 45 minutes, so I wrote not bed,

regarding the number of, quote-unquote, political influencers

who are using their identity as Catholic converts

to make a political statement regarding Zionism and Jews and Israel and the war and yada, yada, yada.

And honestly, I'm like a little sick of it.

So the peace centers around these, I'm not going to go by their name because they leadly they feed for attention.

So I'm going to starve the beast.

I'm not going to name them.

But you guys can figure out who I'm talking about.

These recent Catholic converts who have created political platforms and social media platforms really centered around, like, I'm a recent Catholic convert, therefore X, Y, and Z.

And look, a big part of the piece that I wrote, if you haven't read it, is centered on the idea

that I am not here to tell anyone what to think, right? To quote like Fran Leebowicz, or to paraphrase from Leibowitz, my great lot in life is that I'm always a godfather and ever a God. I can't make anyone believe something that I believe, and I'm not going to try. I give people the, you know, the information that I have, I give people data, I let them draw their own conclusions

because it's not worth it to scream into a microphone until I have a heart attack like Mark Labin did.

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