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without the ads. This is the Tom Hartman program.

On the line with us our buddy, Dean Obidala, my colleague here on Sirius XM Progress.

His show is from 6 to 9 p.m. Eastern Time, 3 to 6 p.m. here on the West Coast.

It's his Substack newsletter, which you need to subscribe to.

It's free. It's called the Dean's Report.

Just go over to Substack.com and plug in Dean's Report, and it'll get you right to it.

You can sign it, just plug your email address in and boom, it shows up in

your email box. It's that simple. His website also, Dean ofradio.com and Dean obdala.com. And

Dean, it's so nice to have you with us. And I want to talk about your thoughts on, and I know

you've been writing about a lot of this stuff. In fact, just this morning, your newsletter I just got a little while ago, about bending the knee in advance or kissing

the ass in advance and whether, you know, Zuckerberg and Bezos would do that. I am curious your

thoughts on, you know, what's going on here? And why ABC, when they clearly could have won this

case, decided instead to give him $15 million.

Well, Tom, first, nice to be on your show, and I think that if he had, if Trump asked him that kiss his buttocks, they would say which one, both left and right, they'd be happy to do whatever he wants.

This is about big money.

And to remind people, Jeff Bezos blocked the Washington Post,

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