And we're a better way to do this.

Let me show you a better way.

And we are live a couple minutes early from the posted start time, but definitely later in the day that is typical of any day of the week, and specifically a Monday, because it is Monday, February the 23rd, 2026.

This is episode 3,804 of the survival podcast. And like many Mondays, I'm not going to say most,

but like many Mondays, the majority of Mondays maybe, we're going to be doing kind of the

current events, look around, see what's going on, show. I have today really kind of almost

cut perfectly in half on bullet points,

maybe one more bullet point for the blood and guts. It was going to be a kind of a two-part show.

I guess even some of the good news is not necessarily good, but we're going to kind of talk about

geopolitical things for the first half of the show. And the second half, we're going to look at

some other things that are going on

and more of a conversational tone than an informational tone.

Anyway, what do I mean about?

We're going to talk about New York is expecting epic snowstorm.

I guess it's already going on.

So, you know, they got a new socialist mayor who's going to fix everything and make everything

wonderful.

So in addition to the fact, he just started raiding pension funds because the city's broke.

Guy's been in office for like a month and he's destroyed everything.

Now they're asking people to come shovel snow with like shovels.

I can't even begin to tell you the amount of money that New York City spends on shit every year.

I used to sell to the city of New York, specifically in a telecommunication space, and that alone,

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