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A slight difference today, we are recording on Tuesday, August the 26th, even though we said we would be recording on Thursday, August the 28th.

A slight change in my schedule, because as I think I told you in last episode, this week,

we are taking our older son to college. So anyway, those things, logistics change at the last minute.

I just wanted to explain our change of recording day. We'll be back to, you know, our normal,

normal Wednesday going forward. These are just kind of like, you know, one time scheduling changes,

but we've got a lot to discuss. And, you know, I think we're just going to jump right into this because this happened last night. It had been sort of signaled in the way

things often happen in Trump land. You see some sort of kind of hints and then threats, oh, I can definitely do it if I

want to do it. And then people come forward and start like cheering Trump on. And there's actually

one part of this I want to get into, which has to do with where the accusation came from.

But anyway, Lisa Cook is one of, you know, the Fed is as much as in the political

world, we kind of know about it. It's still something that beyond, we know there's a Fed chair,

but the Fed chair is not like the president of the Fed is a chair, sort of like the chief justice,

kind of, in the sense that that person has a, well, more than chief justice, but still,

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