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woke comes from, as I am led to believe, slaying in the black community that people have woken up about stuff and it was embraced by the left that they had gone woke and it was supposed to be a good thing to be woke. The problem with woke is that it's insanity. It is cultural insanity. It is a social contamination. It is brain rot. To this day, the wokes believe that boys can become girls. The level of insanity when it comes to transgenderism, you know, men are now applying to the WNBA. They're just signing the forum, making the declaration. Ines Cantor Freedom has done it, among others. And the WNBA has refused to define what a woman is. And in fact, coaches at the WNBA have said, if you believe you're a woman, you can come on board. Now, they'll throw out Inaz Canter Freedom because he's not going to lie and say he really believes himself to be a woman. He'll be disqualified on that. But that's wokeism. Another one, another sign of wokeism, do you use Latinx or Latinx? Because a lot of white people do. Nobody in the Hispanic community uses Latinx or Latinx. It's like Francesca Hong uses folks with an X, Y, to be inclusive. Well, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went on Jonathan Carl over the weekend and talked about wokeism and the wokes. And what's notable is she was with Jonathan Carl. She hasn't given an interview in two years, and she probably went there because she wanted a soft interview. Carl, I think it's a fair assessment to say Jonathan Carl doesn't particularly care for Donald Trump or the GOP these days. So he's a little more sympathetic in his questioning to the Democrats. So Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez goes on there for her first big TV interview in two years. Listen to some of this. She's moved away from a lot of that. Right. She's moved away from it. And I have a local city councilman that has this. saying woke one was crazy. And I think that what's important is that we have to assess what... Was it? I mean, did the movement go too far with some of those positions? I mean, you briefly supported the idea of defunding the police. Well, you know, I think that... During this time, and during, especially during COVID, there was a huge opening of the overtime window. We were shut down. There was some of the highest unemployment rates that we have seen because of those shutdowns. And I think that the doors were really open in trying to entertain any and every policy that was going to get us to a better place. And I actually think that the discussions that were had in that time were quite fruitful. She never answered the question, do you still support defunding the police? She never answered the question because she does. What woke 2.0 is, is lying about your positions. That's it.

They're just lying about the position. Now, they still support defunding the police. They still support abolishing ICE. They still support allowing the border to be open and illegal aliens to flood the country. They still support boys and girls' sports and boys' and girls' locker rooms. They still support protecting trans kids from their parents with their parents being shut out of knowledge. They still support the indoctrination of kids in school instead of actually teaching kids. They still support all the stuff they supported in Woke 1.0. is now going to lie about it. She won't answer the question. And she has the audacity to use COVID shutdowns. She was a proponent of keeping it shut down for longer than anybody. She was one of the people who attacked Brian Kemp in Georgia when he beat Ron DeSantis at opening the state of Georgia. Now, those of you in 40, you all know I love Ron. In fact, we just connected to each other on LinkedIn. I like Ron DeSantis a lot. But because he was a Republican presidential candidate, he gets inordinately more attention than my governor, Brian Kemp in Georgia, who was the first governor in the United States, the first governor to reopen his state. He never shut down churches, neither did Ron DeSantis. He never forced people to completely stay inside, neither did Ron DeSantis. But between schools and everything else, Brian Kemp opened first, and it was Brian Kemp who suffered the score of Donald Trump, Anthony Fauci, and the American media with the Atlantic running a story on Georgia's experiment in human sacrifice because they were going to allow people to go back to bars and restaurants. And as Brian Kemp said at the time, it was a balance between public health and mental well-being and business. You can't go all or one or the other. You know, he was really, really concerned about shutting down schools and dragged his feet on shutting down schools because he's mindful of child abuse. And he didn't want children to be stuck at homes where they might be being abused where school is their safe place. And when kids go to school and they've been abused, oftentimes the teachers can tell and they can alert authorities. And if the kids aren't going to school and they're staying home and they're remote learning, how do you know? He was really concerned about that and was pressured by the government, by the feds to shut everything down. He did for a time. He reopened quicker than anybody. He's never gotten the national credit. Ron DeSantis and Florida get all the credit in large part because Ron DeSantis was running for president. And so the media was paying attention to him. But it was Brian Kemp in Georgia who reopened his state first. And by the way, Georgia was the first state to recover economically. Surprise, surprise. And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the meantime, was blasting Brian Kemp and standing with Stacey Abrams, say it needed to be shut down. And now she's like, oh, during shutdown, there were so many people unemployed. We needed to have conversations, anything, and everything. But you supported... defunding the police at the time. Well, we need to have conversations about every possible policy idea. This is all about Francesca Hong in Wisconsin. The Republicans are the ones who have poured money in to help her get elected. Did you know this? This is kind of funny. Francesca Hong brags. She's the far-left Wackadoo running for governor of Wisconsin who hates Thanksgiving.

Who, by the way, did a softball Politico interview where she said, oh, I love Thanksgiving after years of saying how much she hates it, suddenly turn on her dime. It's amazing how quickly these people will lie and disown their prior statements for convenience. Francesca Hong has been bragging about the fact that she has not run a single TV ad. If you thought your radio cut out there for a minute, it was a sneeze, but I hit the mute button just in time. Francesca Hong Bragg, she hasn't run a single TV ad. She hasn't. But millions of dollars have poured in on television to support her and boost her profile. It turns out it's a Republican super PAC, and it's worked. She might just win. Now, I think the Wisconsin primary day, I think it's tomorrow. Minnesota is this tomorrow? And I, yep, yep, Wisconsin's tomorrow, Minnesota's tomorrow. Wonderful, marvelous. We'll see if she wins. She's ahead of the polls. And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is supporting her. You know Bernie Sanders is not. What's interesting is that Bernie Sanders supported Graham Platner and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did not. You know why she didn't? I can tell you why she didn't. Because she was a bartender. She could recognize the D-Bag sentiment from Graham Platner on the spot. He may share her values, but she could tell. She's a good judge of person. I've got Republican friends of mine in Congress who, boy, they disagree with her on everything, but they say she's a very personal person. She gets people. She years as a bartender. Her biography and all might have been much of it manufactured, but she was a bartender for a number of years. She knows how to read people, and she refused to support Graham Platner. But she's supporting Hong, who's just nuts. The Democratic socialists are crazy. This is Scott Jennings. He was on ABC News this weekend. And with all due respect to my friend Donna, there's nothing like. You can't draw any equivalence between the Tea Party movement and the Socialists. For one, the Tea Party folks weren't trying to bring about the downfall of Western civilization and the United States of America. Abolish the police, abolish ICE, abolish borders, abolish the Senate, abolish the Constitution. There was nothing like this in the Republican Party. So it's an extreme... political ideology that is gaining traction. The Democrat leadership has lost control. They know it. And people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Hong in Wisconsin, Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, you talk about the big tent. The Democrat Jewish Attorney General of Michigan cannot even go to her party's nominating convention because she says, I won't be safe there because of the supporters of Abdul El-Sayed. You can't draw any equivalence between what happened in the Republican Party with the resurgence of patriot conservatives versus these anti-American radicals. He's not wrong, by the way. He really is not wrong, but it's also, well, let's go to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who continues now to defend Hasan Piker. I think that the flip-flopping on this is a tactical.

debate that they may be having. I think the fact of the matter is is that Democrats can go on Joe Rogan, Democrats can go on Fox News, Democrats have a responsibility to build a winning coalition, and young people are engaging in mediums and conversations that we have a responsibility to attend to and be responsive to. And even right now, when we look at this insurgent wave of what is happening, Oftentimes when people are doing that Monday morning quarterbacking and what demographics voted where, the big one that's being ignored is the generational title wave. The generational title wave, she says. And we'll dismiss Hasan Piker, who's called for U.S. deserve 9-11. Landlords should be murdered in the streets. Rick Scott, the senator from Florida should be murdered. He said all these things. He has said that landlords should be dragged into the streets and murdered. He has said Rick Scott should be murdered. He has called for violence in America. He has said the United States got what it deserved on 9-11, said he does not have any bit of patriotism for the United States, but he loves Mao Zedong. The Republicans were forced by the press corps to run away, deservedly so from Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist. But the Democrats are circling the wagons around guys like Hasan Piker. They say, well, we're woke 2.0 now and woke 2.0, not as crazy as woke 1. It's the same damn positions you just lie about it now and pretend you don't take the position. It's the exact same positions. Defund the police. Defund ICE. Get rid of the Supreme Court. Get rid of the Senate. Get rid of all the institutions of America. and claim the United States was founded in racism and to prop up slavery, it's the same thing you just now lie and say you don't believe it until you get elected in act. But there are some warnings here for the GOP, and I want to give my buddy bin Domit's the last word on this one. You've got to listen to this. I don't disagree with that at all. I think, though, you're identifying. I mean, this is a chicken and egg debate. And so it's basically like, do they need to be tougher in order to reject this? Or do they need to reject this in order to be tougher? And I think that what we're actually seeing play out here is a situation where a lot of people have come out of the line. last several decades of experience of, you know, the financial collapse of everything that came from that, of, you know, the COVID experience and everything that came from that. And they've learned to assume that certain things are going to be the, you know, basically the status quo for their existence. Now I think a lot of them are questioning that and saying, you know, why isn't this thing cheaper? Why isn't this, you know, something that I can still afford? And unfortunately, the inflation that has been saddled onto this generation by the Biden administration, by the way, not the Trump administration before it, is the whole thing that they're really dealing with. Yes. And the GOP needs to have an answer for it. Tariffs are not the answer. More government control is not the answer. Young people will move to the Wackadoo left position if they do not feel like they're being benefited. And what Republicans have got to understand?

is moral hazard. When the government creates moral hazard, they create more conditions for more catastrophe that drives up costs and creates inflation. And the GOP right now seems to be playing the game just like the Democrats. I'll explain moral hazard when we get back. You've got to understand this and understand that the GOP needs to have an alternative. They don't need to be socialist light. They need to be free market. Those who love them? Listen to find out what he's going to say next. Those who disagree with him. Also listen to see what he's going to say next. It's the Eric Erickson Show. Get Eric's daily show prep email. Text data to 33777, and you'll be in the know. Greetings, welcome. Eric Erickson here. 877-97-973-7-425. He's going to be on the program at like 4.30 this morning or Saturday morning. I wasn't up. I was asleep, but Todd Blanche got confirmed. by the United States Senate took 50 votes, and he got 50 votes, and he became the Attorney General, and it was a very close margin for him, but he is officially confirmed now. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana decided to vote for him. Bill Cassidy's on his way out. A lot of people expected he might just not vote for... Todd Blanche, given his rage at the Trump administration for, among other things, the president not supporting him in his reelection, but he decided to do it. So Todd Blanche got the nod, and we'll see where this goes. I don't know where it actually does go. I mean, he's been doing the job for a while, and I've got to tell you, I have found him to be. more competent than Pam Bondi in management. And behind the scenes, people within the Trump White House tell me that they're actually very pleased with him as just a manager and steward of the Department of Justice. A lot of concerns, he was the president's personal attorney, a lot of concerns about possibly his ideology behind the scenes. He's done a good job. Indisputably, I think he's done a good job as Attorney General thus far, acting Attorney General, and now has the job. Bill Cassidy's argument was that he has more wiggle room now as the official Attorney General to hold the President accountable, which is kind of a nonsense argument if he asked me, because the President can fire him at will, whether he's acting or not. But he does have the full capacities and powers of the job. So Todd Blanche is there. Now, one of the things he's turning his eye towards and what the civil rights office is turning his eyes towards is free speech on college campus. There's a new report out by fire.

the foundation for, was it individual rights and education or some such, that a number of campuses in America are cracking down on free speech and have become regressive when it comes to free speech. I want to actually spend some time on that when we come back because it does have huge implications as well as Hasan Piker has just been uninvited from giving a speech on a college campus. But I got to tell you about my run-eye tankless water heater first. And I keep going back to this incident from a week ago when we headed on on vacation. I had forgotten what it was like to stand in a shower and have the water run cold when you ran out of hot water. Because we've had a Reney tankless water heater now for two, three years, and you never run out of hot water. And the other night was staying at a house and the water ran cold. While I was there, my daughter had had her shower, wasn't even thinking about it. When we got up to the mountain, we stayed at this great Airbnb, and we never ran out of hot water there. But we had a one-night stay at a place, and they had a water tank, and the water tanker ran cold. That never happens with the Renai Tankless water heater. You never run on hot water. So your kids can take showers or baths, and then you can, and you're all going to have hot water. If you go to Talking Tanklist.com, you can get one. They're reasonably priced, very reasonably priced. They're very competitive, and you never run on hot water. You can even find a certified professional at TalkingTankless.com to install your tankless water heater. I have sold friends on this for several years, even before they advertised. I was a customer of Reney's before they ever advertised on the show. I wooed them because I love their product. You will too. Talkingtankless.com, never run out of hot water again. Have hot water forever. Thanks to Rani. Go to Talkingtankless.com. Order one today. Replace your tank of a water heater.

I just, I got to say, as I talk about colleges and free speech, my son is entering his senior year in high school. We are preparing for him to go off next year. He really wants to go to Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. And his school is requiring, so they do chapel. And they're requiring the seniors to wear business. casual attire. They have to wear ties for chapel on Thursdays, and they can be without a tie on Monday, but it's got to be business attire. And so I took... Allergy, sorry. I took my son to Brooks Brothers on Saturday in Atlanta. and I spent way too much money on those no iron dress shirts. I'm a big fan of the Brooks Brothers, no iron dress shirts. I have a tailor these days who makes a lot of my dress shirts, but I got him the non-iron dress shirts because I don't want to take him to dry cleaning. He's not going to take him to dry cleaning. Got him some pants. It was a lot of money for not a lot of stuff. They introduced him to how to pick out a tie to match a shirt and a jacket and all that to get him ready for college and business stuff. So he looks more professional. Even wore at the church yesterday on Sunday. And then we went and saw The Odyssey again. I liked it better the second time, by the way. I mean, I liked it. I got a sneak peek of it. And then I actually saw it in the theater with my son and I liked it. But I really liked it better the second time. But all that, getting him ready for college and stuff, one of the big issues is, well, going to a non-woke school. Let me start this conversation this way. Our population is now in decline. Starting this coming year, every kindergarten class in America, will be smaller than the class that came before it. We have fewer kids in the country. We have fewer people having kids. It's a problem long term. We have turned against immigration as a way to boost our society. People aren't having kids, so we're a society in decline now. Americans are getting older. Healthcare costs are rising. Health care is the only sector that's really creating jobs at this point. We're a nation in decline. Not economically, not militarily, except by choice, but population-wise, we are beginning to shrink. And that's going to be a problem for colleges and how colleges distinguish themselves. So I think about... My alma mater, Mercia University, it used to be a Baptist school, and I would use air quotes for that because it wasn't very much so. And then I think that my daughter's going there, and I love it. Many happy memories there, and I got a great education. My son wants to go to Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama.

And what separates the two is that where my college was Baptist and now is not, Samford University is explicitly Baptist and religious, and they pray, and religion is a component woven in. Christianity, I should say, not religion is woven into the fabric of the school. And it's a whole different vibe. It really is. And so I worry about my alma mater. They've got a great new president. The past presidents were great. My wife worked for the former president turned chancellor, who was the president when I was there. And I love it. It's got a beautiful campus. It's got great programs, got a great medical school, got great engineering school. But how do you distinguish yourself if you don't have that Christian component where you actually believe it? Because there are some schools other that call themselves Christian and they don't actually believe it. How do you distinguish yourself? What's going to set you apart? When our population shrinks and kids are deciding where to go to school, is it going to be your alumni network and parents luring their kids? Is it going to be some remarkable program that you have that others don't have? What's going to set your school apart when you've lost your founding religious convictions where Christians say, I want to send my kids to a school with fellow believers? I mean, my son wants to go to Sanford, one, the architecture program. He wants to be an architect. Two, he loves the campus, and three, he really loved the faith aspect. He really loved the Christian component that was woven into the fabric of the school. But how does your alma mater where you went? If it's a state school, you're going to survive because taxpayers will take care of you. But if you went to a private school, what set your Wheaton apart from your Barry College, from your shorter college, from your, what sets your Duke apart from your Emory, apart from your Yale, apart from your Harvard, other than name and reputation, you've got alumni dollars in endowment. If you're a smaller school. How do you survive as population begins to decline? If you've given up your integrity for your faith component, say we're no longer explicitly at Christian school, we are one of multitudes of small, independent, private colleges, what sets us apart? And if you're a state school, like in Georgia, we have a lot. One of the great schools near me, they got a great president there now, Georgia College and State University in Millageville. It's a fantastic school. I put it on the radar for my son. He really wants to go to Sanford. It's a fantastic school. It is not the University of Georgia. It is not Georgia Tech. It has found a way to segment itself with its academic program and its college and its environment and its location. Georgia Southern down the road for me as a growing football program. It used to have the reputation of the party school. crack down on academics. You go out to Texas, of course. You've got University of Texas. You've got Texas A&M. You've got Baylor, which is private. You've got SMU. How do these private schools distinguish themselves? And one of the bigger issues is so many of these schools have embraced wokeism. You heard Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I played the clip earlier saying woke one was kind of nutty. But a lot of these schools maintain it. And increasingly those schools, one of the core components, is speech and lack thereof.

Fire has come out with their rankings, their two 2026 college free speech ranking at America's colleges get an F. This is from the report. If America's colleges could earn report cards for free speech friendliness, most would deserve an F. And conservative students are increasingly joining their liberal peers and supporting censorship. The sixth annual college free speech rankings released today by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, survey partner college polls show a continued decline in support for free speech among all students, but particularly conservatives. Students of every political persuasion show a deep unwillingness to encounter controversial ideas. The survey, which is the most comprehensive look at campus expression in the country, ranked 257 schools based on 68,510 student responses to a wide variety of free speech-related questions. The rankings come at a notable moment for free speech on college campuses, clashes over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a vigorous and aggressive culture of student activism, and the Trump administration's persistent scrutiny of higher education. This year, students largely opposed allowing any controversial campus speaker, no matter that speaker's politics, says fire president and CEO Greg Lukanov. Rather than hearing out and then responding to an ideological opponent, both liberal and conservative college students are retreating from the encounter entirely. This will only harm students' abilities to think critically and create risks between them. We must champion free speech. So here are the best colleges for free speech. Claremont McKenna, number one, Purdue, number two, University of Chicago, number three, Massachusetts Technological University, number four, University of Colorado at Boulder, five, University North Carolina, Greensboro, six, Vanderbilt University seven, Appalachian State at eight, Eastern Kentucky at nine, North Carolina State, at 10. The worst colleges for free speech. Loyola University, Chicago. Middlebury College, New York University, Boston College, University of California, Davis, Northeastern University of Washington, Indiana University, Columbia University, and Bernard College at 257. I'm not surprised by Bernard. Claremont McKenna two years in a row has taken the top spot as support for speech. Speech controversies at the highest rated schools are rare. Their administrations are more likely to support free speech. The schools that improve the most include Dartmouth and Vanderbilt. They work to reform their policies and recently implemented new programs that support free speech and encourage open discourse. The lowest rated schools are home to restrictive speech policies, and some of last year's most shocking anti-free speech moments, including threats to press freedom, speaker cancellation, and quashing student protests. Now, listen to this. One of the 257 schools surveyed, 166 of them, get an F. Only 11 schools receive a speech climate grade of six, or of C or higher.

Only 36% of students said it was extremely or very clear the administration protects free speech. One in three students now hold some level of acceptance for resorting to violence. 53% of students say the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a difficult topic to discuss openly on campus. On 21 of the campuses surveyed, 75% of the students said this. 90% at Bernard. For the first time ever, a majority of students opposed their school allowing any of the six controversial speakers they were asked about onto campus. Three controversial conservative speakers, three controversial liberal speakers. More students than ever think violence and chaos are acceptable alternatives. Now, I'm interested in this. I'm going to go to my school. Overall, average score, 61%, which is an increase. The average grade is a D minus three speech controversies in my state. Let's explore the rankings here. Georgia Tech ranks 29th, Emory University ranks 67th, Georgia State University ranks 132, and the University of Georgia ranks 143, an F, an F for the University of Georgia, an F for Georgia State, a D minus for Emory, a D plus. For Georgia, those are the schools that are listed in the state. They don't have of all these schools. I don't think my alma mater is listed. Nope, it's not listed. So my alma mater does rank. And I think my alma mater, Merce University, is actually pretty open about speech and not super woke. They've had some issues on campus, but not much. Auburn University, by the way, is ranked number 28. It's still a D-plus. But Auburn at no school in Alabama gets an F. The lowest is University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. Still ranks higher than the University of Georgia in accommodating free speech. Now, I want to go out to California because I'm curious about California. At California, Claremont McKinn is number one. And then the second ranked as Stanford at 79. Most University of California schools rank at the bottom of the list. I'm not surprised. I am not surprised at all. These universities do not like and are deeply intolerant of anybody on campus speaking up. The university that has had the biggest positive improvement is Dartmouth. The university with the biggest negative improvement is Kent State University. I find it notable that Purdue University in Indiana is number two for free speech, and Indiana University in Indiana is third from the bottom in terms of censorship.

Clemson is 13. University of Tulsa is 12. And by the way, being 12 isn't great because it's a C. FSU is at 17. It's a C minus. University of Mississippi is 27. It's just these are not good rankings. Schools are intolerant. And what I find most alarming is that conservative students are increasingly as intolerant as progressive students. And by the way, you should know, in fairness, that's backlash. That is backlash. Progressive students have been so hostile for so long to conservative voices. Conservatives are like, well, we don't want to hear left-wing voices either. Conservatives raise up your children to be open to hearing controversial ideas. I try to do that with my kids. You should love your neighbor and hear them out. Love your neighbor and hear them out. Whether you agree with them or not, you should not silence them. Hasan Piker has just had one of his speeches canceled. Hasan Piker speech canceled. I forget what university it was. Yes, the University of Washington has canceled Hasan Piker's speech. What's notable is that on Fires list, which came out before the Hasan Piker speech was banned, it was the fourth worst when it came to free speech. Fringe, you've got to be willing to entertain controversial ideas. And on a college campus, all ideas should be entertained. And I understand conservatives are increasingly intolerant of other ideas because college professors are intolerant of conservatives. So there's been a backlash here. You can't look at this and say conservatives are becoming increasingly hostile to free speech without recognizing they're doing so as a backlash to hostility to their ideas. But it's a terrible thing that's happening. And one of the things that the government can do, is force open the free speech door of these colleges, particularly crack down on schools, cracking down on conservative voices on campus. That's what's provoking the conservative backlash. If our kids are unwilling to be exposed to controversial ideas, they don't like, they're not going to be able to refine their own ideas. The reason the pro-life movement has been so effective in this country for so long is not winning elections. to change the Supreme Court? It's that the pro-life movement better understood the ideas of the left than the left understood the pro-life movement's ideas. And so the pro-life movement could respond more capably and therefore win elections more capability and therefore shape the Supreme Court. But it came down to the pro-life movement being willing to engage with and understand the ideas of their opponents while their opponents shut their minds to the ideas of the pro-life movement. And the pro-life movement won. If you want to win the future, you've got to be able to engage the arguments. And if you're intolerant to even hearing the arguments, you're never going to understand the arguments to respond to them. You've got to be open to free speech starting on campus. When the truth seems hazy, Eric will clear the way. It's the Eric Erickson Show.

The Four Things You Need to Know podcast, giving you the four things to pay attention to after the show, available on YouTube and your favorite podcast app, or by texting Eric to 3377777. I got to tell you, I read, of all things, I forget who put it in the stack of stuff for me to look at over the weekend, but there is a story in the New York Times about how Gin Z dress like they've never worn clothes before. And I just, I found it in funny juxtaposition. I mentioned taking my son to Brooks brothers this weekend because his school is making them learn business dress. And it's twice each week they got to do it. And it's kind of funny. If none of them screw it up, they don't have to wear ties except for chapel. And if any of them screw it up, I think he said they all have to like start wearing coats and ties and stuff. So they're trying not screw it up. The other funny thing, I got to say, and ladies, you'll appreciate this as much as the rest of us, is on the piece of paper that describes appropriate dress. It's always so much more complicated to explain to women what is acceptable than guys are just like long-sleeved shirts and pants, the end. I just, I feel, and okay, can we be honest, ladies, that. To some degree, you do it to the whole makeup and everything else. I mean, my wife's like she got to put on the makeup and everything. I don't care. And it is like women judge other women on what you wear and how you style your hair and all this. I couldn't care less. And I think I speak for most men that we would just like to go to dinner on time. And I know there's some woman out there right. I say, you say that, but. Nope, there's no but. There's no but. And now you've got this piece of New Times that even like young gen, Gen Z men, like they don't know how to dress. It's like they have no concept of how to put on clothes. My goodness. Okay, I got to tell you about Vision Computers before I get myself in trouble and before I get out of here, if you go to Vision Computers.com or call them at 404 compute, they can build you a computer, not just build you a computer. They can be your managed IT service for yourself. For your parent, for your kid, for your office. If your parents are prone to being taken advantage up by the telemarketers, they should get Vision Computers because you can get them on the phone and help you. If your company is overwhelmed with tech issues and you can afford the in-house IT guy, Vision can take care of you. And they don't use AI chat pots. They use actual human beings. Call them at 404 computer. Go to Vision Computers.com. You get somebody on the phone 15 seconds or less to take care of you. And they help people coast to coast. It doesn't matter where you are in the United States, Vision Computers can help.

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