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I have some people from Colorado said that CEO Kelsey hit it out of the park at her talk at Sikh conference here in Denver. Kelsey. No surprise. I mean, no surprise. I mean. Of course. But yeah, shout it to those guys at Sikh. I I have some friends in Focus. We've got a little news information out of that because we, of course, on the staff, knew that, you know, know that she's pregnant. She made it public. But then not only that, and we knew it was a boy. But then she said the name that they're going to baptize him with. I missed it. What's his name? I didn't hear about that. What's that? Isn't it in the story? Oh. Did you read the story? No, I did. I'm going to keep it A1. I had a plague for like a week. I think it gives an indication of who she's going to support in the 2028 primaries, though.

Is this Gavin?

Marco?

No, James Dominic.

It sounds like she's a JD fan.

Oh, oh, okay. Don't put that on her yet, Josh.

It's early.

Can't give them out too early, especially with their children.

Hey, but here's a deal.

We got a good show today. I think like many

of you, we've been really stewing on, I mean, one of the most shocking, seemingly successful operations

of all time. I mean, we just, so we snatched the leader of Venezuela overnight. He was in New York

in like four hours. He's before a judge right now that leaves a lot of questions. You know, what was the operation? What actually happened? What's going to happen with Venezuela? There's a very interesting, Josh, but we got an hour show. You can't just say it now. No, no, no, no. So you don't understand. Trump heard all the about the no King's protest. He goes, Okay, I'll I'll take care of him yeah I have seen a lot

of stuff that a lot of people are reporting the final straw for Trump was that he danced too much

Maduro was doing the Trump dance to tell him and that was it he said all right send him in can't have

that anymore anyway I mean so much to talk about there but we're going to do good news. We're going to do Twadzone as always. But I will hand it right over to Erica. So we had Operation Absolute Resolve. I think, you know, the retelling of a great name, of course. But I mean, really just shockingly successful and a pretty complex. So shout out to our boys. But yeah, tell us what happened there.

Yeah, I mean, you just have to appreciate the surgical precision of what went down on Saturday

night. We all woke up Sunday morning. This all happened while we were sleeping here on the East

Coast. And we wake up and it's like, oh, we took the president of, or so-called president, self-proclaimed president of venezuela so on saturday morning around

1.30 a.m. Eastern series of explosions start to ring out over the city of Caracas and within minutes

Nicholas Maduro and and his wife Celia flores who were sleeping in a military compound, basically.

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