Hi, everybody. Here's the scoop for the week ahead. I don't know about you. I've had a kind of a total

Monday. You know, we know what that's like. I just was about to get started on our recording.

I'd love to do this live for you soon enough. We're just getting everything in order and figuring out

how efficient we can be. So if I tell you, we're going to start recording at noon central central time. We actually do start recording at noon. We're almost there. We're not quite there. We're working out some of the kinks. But just as I was about to start, I heard this like strange beeping. And it was the UPS guy backing down the driveway. Gave me a little wave. I should have had him come on. We would have had a live interview about what's actually happening with the economy and deliveries. I could have had a first person account right in front of maybe next time. Maybe next time. They probably see me in front. I'm sitting in my office kind of in the front of our house. And I use an open window because natural light is the best light.

It's the truth.

And so I don't know what they think.

They must think there's that girl again recording into her computer.

So anyways, we're going to move past that.

I didn't want you to have that reverse sound on the audio.

So I wanted to wait to get past that. But appreciate the

UPS guy. As always, don't know what I would do without them over the last several years.

I do have a little bit of, you know, the headlines hitting home, which happens depending on the

story. One of the things we're going to be talking about today are respiratory viruses that are

affecting children. I do have

one sick child in the house today, and she's upstairs watching teenage mutant ninja turtles,

just for the record. Liberty, my six-year-old, who loves to dance and dress up in fairy princess

costumes, loves ballet, also loves those green mutant ninja turtles, which I did as well. I can appreciate

that about her. So that's taking place. We'll see if we get through this report without an

interruption. I welcome it because this is what's going on, folks. And we have to be, this is a different

sort of news. It's different than you're going to get on the networks. And that's good. That's good.

So you know what? To start off today, I thought, let's do something completely different because I was reading about this and I thought, wow, this gives us some real perspective.

So today in history, in 1861, it was the launch of the transcontinental telegraph system.

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