All righty, hello and everyone and welcome to it.

It is the 18th, 917, 17th of December, 2025.

Happy Wednesday to you. And I think, knock wood, I got an email,

it started working. I didn't get an email from SoundCloud or iTunes or anybody. It just started

working and got people email it. So hopefully this returns to normal. I'm still going to post it

on Patreon just in case

for free because I don't know what the hell happened. Nobody told me it was fixed. Nobody told me

they were even working on it. So I don't know. But thanks. All right. This is going to be short because

it is late. It's after midnight. And we've got the in-laws coming to town tomorrow for Christmas.

And so that means that everybody's been running around cleaning and all of that.

So just tired.

Tonight the president is going to address the country.

I don't know why.

I hope.

I genuinely hope he takes this time to explain what got him so fired up about Venezuela.

There's a case to be made. I'm open to it. The drug trade is awful and kills far too many

Americans and evil people profit off of it and use the

profits for evil on top of doing the evil to get the profits. I'm all in favor of that. But he hasn't

really made the case for it very much. He's mentioned it casually at various press conferences,

but he hasn't laid out a case. I hope he takes the time to do that,

but all indications are,

at least as of this point,

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