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Well, you know, every day that I do the show, I don't do a script.

I don't really do a lot of notes.

I just kind of highlight I want to talk about this story, this story, this story, this story, this story, this story.

But Charlie asks me, since we break the podcast out by hour, instead of doing the full three-hour show is one podcast, we break it out by hour.

And he asks me to give each hour a name.

The name for this hour is recession redefined brought to you by the people who can't define what a woman is.

The White House has declared a redefinition of what a recession is.

If you look up the definition of a recession in the Oxford English Dictionary, the Merriam-Webster dictionary, or even go to an encyclopedia.

What you find is two quarters of negative economic growth.

Two quarters of negative economic growth.

That is the traditional definition of what a recession is.

Now, it is true.

It is true.

The National Bureau of Economic Research back in 2008 tweaked the definition.

So it's not a technical two quarters. It's a more neb the definition. So it's not a technical two quarters.

It's a more nebulous definition.

They are the group of people.

You may remember the CNN story, the group of white men who decide if we're in a recession.

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