Can I just have a moment of personal privilege to begin the work week? You can have all the moments. Go for it. What's on your mind, Rob? In fact, Casey will see us at noon today. No, no, no. Okay, so we've got to get to Trump and Putin and all this stuff. But the award-winning newsman, John Herrick, said something during his newscast. Not that anything that he's done, he's reporting the news, right? He's reporting the information as it's become available to him.

But there's anything that he's done, he's reporting the news, right? He's reporting the information as it's become available to him. But there's something that he said, that a politician said, that just enrages me. And every time I hear it, I'm going to point it out. So he's talking about it, and we'll do a whole big hullabaloo on this later, that they're presenting

the budget tonight for the city of Indianapolis and the money's going for this and

that's not like anything's going to get better.

But in the course of human events, Casey, they quoted Boss Hogg said, as saying something

like the budget is a balance the budget.

Yes, he balance the budget.

He has to balance the budget. Yes, he balance the budget. He has to balance the budget.

Any time.

And I see this and it enraged me when I was an elected person.

It enrages me as a member of the media.

Anytime a local government person or a state government person brags about balancing their budget. They don't have a choice. There's not an option of unbalanced budget. Can we check that box? Unbalanced budget. Now, let's go with the balance budget. When you do the budget every year, you don't, yeah, it's not like, choose your own adventure. Would you like a balanced budget? Go to page 37. For an unbalanced budget,

go to page 65. You don't get any bonus points for this. The state of Indiana, no bonus points,

the city of Indianapolis, no bonus points, the city of Carmel, no bonus points. You have to balance

your budget because unlike the federal government, you can't print money.

Yeah, so the council is going to meet tonight at 7 o'clock and then there's going to be a public hearing on the budget on September 22nd. And they're going to take their final vote, October 6th. So September 22nd will be the opportunity to be ignored in the order in which you're received if you'd like to question decisions being made. So we'll get to that layer. I didn't want to like derail the whole show, but I heard that and you know how I get because those people, I mean, look, Hawksett doesn't know his head from his backside, so maybe he don't know. But most of these state and local government people know they have to balance their budget. And anytime they bragged you about that in some sort of chamber meeting or rotary club or whatever, you raise your hand and you say, you sit on a throne of lies, sir.

You have to balance your budget.

Well, it's a, it's a $1.7 billion budget.

That's a staggering amount of money, isn't it?

That's so much money.

You know, I was thinking about that last night, and I was like, you know,

when you think about the average person making between $45,000 and I don't know, $65,000 a year,

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