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I want everyone listening to my voice to be healthy, wealthy, and wise.

So this year, we're going to double down on that.

I'm starting a series with Dr. DeFarrest's stories. They call them Buster Stories. And we're going to be talking about how to live debt-free. And what does that even mean? And why is that important? So up next is the first of a series that we are going to be doing, talking about how you can be debt-free. I think we're in a time when we need to have honest, real conversations. There's been a lot of

performance, I think, over the last 20-plus years of people positioning themselves so they can make

money to build an audience. But we are going to be in some real dire times, a lot of us. And, you know,

with the cutting of snap, we can have a discussion about welfare for sure. But I think we have been in a space of entitlement and where we always think something's going to save us. And I'm here to say today that there will be no cavalry. It's going to be us. And so that means we're going to have to think about

when we should have been thinking about this, building the kind of systems that make sense

for the future of this country, the world, and particularly our community. So we're self-sufficient.

Yeah. You know, Karen, thank you because you're exactly right. There's a story in the Bible about people who were traveling through the wilderness and they had no food. And God miraculously provided food for them. But it stopped. And the food was called manna. And a priest's sermon once called No More Manor. And after the manor stopped, some people went out to get the manor, even though they were told, this is temporary.

And I think when you look back at the country, just from a high level, in the 1940s, this country made a decision to start doing things for people, social Security, welfare, jobs, etc.

And they built an unsustainable model.

America's been running on borrowed money,

and we borrow money from people that we call our enemies for years.

And it just was not sustainable. Now one can argue that the way the current leadership is going about fixing the government is both brutal and inhumane.

But no one can argue that the model upon which this country was built is unsustainable.

For the first couple of hundred years, it was based on free labor.

That's unsustainable.

Right.

And then for the next hundred years, it was based on borrowed money.

So America is a big bubble economically exacerbated by social tensions that are based on racial myths.

Right.

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