What's going on, everyone? I am David Green. He is Christian Bachelder and we are Mortgage Monday.

Hope everybody's doing well. It's been a couple weeks. I have been moving across the country and we were not able to get content recorded.

Mostly because of me, Christian has still been in the trenches working very hard, closing loans, saving deals, basically being the loan ranger.

And he's here joining me today to talk

about what the heck is going on in the world of lending. Christian, how are you? I'm doing good. I know

we've got a lot of, a lot of concerns, a lot of things about what's going on with Mortgage Mondays.

We are still planning on going strong guys. So obviously this will probably be one of the first episode that you see after our brief hiatus.

But David and I are alive and well, I promise.

So we're, uh, we just had a little bit of delay for David's move, but we're going to be back at it here in the coming week.

So stay tuned.

Stay on the channel.

Look out for new content updates and follow us every step of the way. And that is a good reminder to go ahead and subscribe to the channel now if you're not

already done so so that you can get notifications of future episodes.

And hey, if you're listening every single episode, you might notice new little things

starting to pop up in my background and you might see Christian's beard slowly growing

over time. Christian, let's get into

what is on the forefront of most people's minds. It's the economy, stupid. Not that you're stupid,

but that's just what the saying is. Where did that come from, by the way? Do you know who first

said that? I don't know. I've heard that for years. I don't know what the actual origin of that is.

I think it was like a president campaigning on what's the most important thing or something. I realized that sounded like I was calling you stupid. And I definitely was not doing that

because you're big brain. But we have had Doge ripping through the ranks of federal employees

and looking for inefficiencies. And there's some people that are listening to this that are

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