Coming to you from the Hagman report dot com studio located in the Keystone

state birthplace of a mighty nation. It's your host, Doug Hagman.

And welcome to Hagman it is a Hagman report for today. It is December 8th 2021.

I want to welcome everyone. Thank you so much for your patience for tuning in

for sharing this program with everyone you know. Appreciate it. You know, we are in a war.

As I always say that we are we are in a fight. We are in the midst of a very cold civil war.

And I will pronounce this now. We are at best hopelessly deadlocked in this country. And I

and I say that based on a couple of interactions I've had over the last couple of days.

Folks I want you to know too. Both my wife and I are has some physical or some medical challenges.

So we are undergoing of course. We have to handle that. And so next Tuesday. I just want to

let you know next Tuesday. I'm obviously going to have surgery. This is not going to be a show.

We'll let you know. Subscribe to that. How many days this might be dark. But tune in for hopefully

the best of or compilation thereof. So I just want to lead off with that. But in leading off with

that again back to hopelessly deadlocked. My opening statement here is based on really a couple

of interactions I've had over the last two days. Some with medical professionals. Some with with

others in the field. Whether it be retail commercial business world, whatever. But I see a growing

rift that I don't believe we can ever ever repair with dialogue. And that that saddens me because

the only the only other alternative is an undesirable one. Yet when people refuse

to to have a dialogue to listen to each side and to make an informed decision based on evidence

provided. There is really not much left. There's not much you can do. And I found myself in that

position today. I found myself in that position earlier. And I'll tell you something folks. I know

you have to whether it be with your family, with your friends, with your coworkers, with your

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