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All right, guys, we've been following some significant unrest in Mexico after the killing of a topcartel leader. We can put this article up on the screen from the Associated Press. They say here that Mexican Army kills leader of powerful Hollisco New Generation cartel during operation to capture him. The Mexican Army called the leader of that cartel, Elmencho he's known as on Sunday, decapitating what had become Mexico's most powerful drug cartel and thrusting swaws of the nation into chaos.
Cars burned out by cartel members blocked roads more than two hundred and fifty points in twenty Mexican states. Authority said and left smoke billowing into the air. Olisco's capital, Guadalajara, was turned into a ghost town Sunday night as civilians hunkered down. School was canceled Monday in several states, and authorities in a variety of states reported at least fourteen dead,
including seven National Guard troops. Joining us to discuss these developments is the Latin America Desk head of drop Site News, Jose Luis Granados saiha.
Great to see Jose, Good to see you. See you again, Hi.
So we can put some of these images up on the screen of you know, cars burning, you can see fires all over the place, and guys, you can just let this run. As Jose brings us up to speed. You'll just give us a sense of what the mood is there in Mexico and how significant of a development this is.
You know, in terms of how significant is this is probably the biggest fish they could possibly catch. Nemesio Sea Mencho, as he's more commonly known, was the major player when it came to organized crime here. It can't be overstated how significant, how big of an impact against organized crime groups this well capture and then his subsequent death really
is for Mexico. And that's why we saw sort of this response in the streets from his associates in these organized crime groups Carteljlisco, cj NNG or Las Cuatro Letras, the four letters. They have various names. They're kind of they are the largest organized crime group here, the most powerful, the most well connected. It's said that they were rivaling, you know, Intertransnational Corporation in terms of their reach and
their international business connections. What was interesting about them is that they sort of were, in a way a kind of a new manifestation of organized crime groups. I think a lot of times people think of the cartels you know of.
You know, Sinaloa, El Chapel, right, Felix Ariano, all of these different groups from you know, the series Netflix that covered the the Mexican organized crime situation.
This one was a little bit different in that they were able to fill a vacuum incredibly quickly, grow incredibly quickly. And that's because they operated sort of learning the lessons of the previous cartel groups of not necessarily kind of wanting to virtual vertically integrate everything. They were kind of almost like a franchise model, where you know, people kind of pay tribute to the central organization without necessarily being
tied to it. And that's generally true of organized crime groups. They're far less organized that I think people think.
But this is of course huge.
I mean, he was the top of this organized crime group. They had presence quite literally in every corner of this country, obviously mostly concentrated in the states where they were most active, like Kalisco, and that's where we saw the most violence. And I think to explain that, obviously we all saw these scenes of you know, billowing cars and roads being blocked, and of course, you know those are disturbing to see,
but they shouldn't be overstated. You know, the article that you read to introduce this piece talked about the chaos and things like that. But that's precisely what these groups
wanted to do. So they had their leader captured, and so as an act of protest you can think of, they go and unleash these kinds of acts of violence, these acts of intimidation in a sense, to send a message to say they're unhappy with what just happened to deliver a message to the federal government, the Mexican government, which was responsible for this operation, but also to show who's the strong actor, because now there's going to be, as always happens when you take out the top, when
you decapitate these organizations, a bit of a competition in terms of who's going to now try to compete to become the new head of the organization. And what we saw yesterday in a sense is that is people trying to flex their own muscle to show, Look how many men I can mobilize, Look how much you know unrest I can cause I'm the one who should really rise.
Up to be the next leader of this organization.
That's very interesting. I didn't realize that, Jose as I understand it as well. Part of the reason that they do this is to inflict pain on the Mexican government. Not only is it bad publicity, but you know, there's a significant number of US tourists who are in the region who are you know, some of them were altering in place in their hotels, and obviously you know these
things go viral or impact their tourism industry. How does the Mexican government come to the conclusion to carry out something like this, because we've seen in the past, you know, with the Chapitos, that famous raid and there was a massive gunfight and people were you know, there were bullets spraying in the streets and all of that. So they know this is going to happen. How do they come to the conclusion ultimately to conduct a raid like this?
So here in Mexico we have a National Security Cabinet, and that is essentially the body that's tess with making these difficult decisions. And part of the kind of calculation is that, in fact, under the previous government, now the Shinbam's predecessor, Nopus Obrador, there was that famous case where one of n Champo's sons was ultimately let go because they made the evaluation that the kind of violence that this was going to unleash was basically not worth it.
You know, there was a calculation link should we proceed with his detention and allow them to unleash the kind of violence that we expect them to, or should we come to walk away and find a better moment for this. I think what's important about this one is that there's a couple of things. One there was important intelligence that was shared from the United States. Apparently both the US government the Mexican government have now said as much that
there was key intelligence here. It sounds like they knew where he was, that this was a good chance to grab him where he wasn't being heavily protected, where they were less able to kind of mobilize, and so it seems that that's the reason they took the decision. This was a good moment, they had good intelligence, they could act on it. But the other one was also kind of understanding that they needed it to strike against these
organized crime groups. They needed to I think, in a lot of ways send a message, not just to the organized crimes groups themselves, to say that we're serious about going after you, that this is a different kind of administration in terms of a much stronger, heavier hand when it comes to these groups, but also a message to Donald Trump to the White House to say you know that right now, the debate that seems to be happening in the United States is whether there should be unilateral
military action by the United States in Mexico. Mexico obviously has said no, that's a redline for this government. They would view it as a violation of sovereignty. But you have to continually make that case because Donald Trump has said on many occasions he wants to send troops into Mexico, he wants to use drone strikes, and Mexican President Glaudias Shambam has said, you can share intelligence, but when it comes to military action, we conduct it because this is
our territory. And I think this is in a lot of ways really good for the Mexican government in that sense to say, look, share this information, we can act on it, and we can take care of it. And obviously, now the task is to deal with the fallout, to deal with these incidents. Although they've largely been under control. As of yesterday, ninety percent of all the roadblocks had been stopped, had been kind of, you know, de established.
But you know, this morning, Gladysheimmum's in her morning press conference now and she's giving the message as we speak, essentially giving the same thing that things are now fully under control.
Sure is there a fear that you know, you're sort of damned if you do, damned if you don't, if you don't strike this cartel leader and take him out. Then the US government says, see, they're not dealing with the cartels. We have to go out and take you in a lateral action. But then when you do take out the cartile leader, it leads not just to these flare ups, but the expectation is there probably will be some sort of turf war and potential increased violence, and
then the US government can look at that. Trump can look at that and say, see, look at all this escalating violence they need as we have to go in.
Yeah, and it's quite likely that there'll be some actors who will make that kind of case and say, well, look look at everything that's happening. You don't have under control. And that's actually why I think we saw online yesterday just fake images, artificial intelligence. There was this image of
a plane on fire that was not real whatsoever. You know, somebody apparently triggered an alarm inside of the airport in Gua la Dajada and that made some people panic, and then somebody took that image and said, look, the commandos from the organized crime groups have taken over the airport
because they want to sow this chaos. They want to sow this kind of sense of a lack of control in order to I think in one in one regard try to support this argument that it's out of control and the Mexican government can't handle it, but also to try to I said at the beginning, to to send this message that they are more powerful than perhaps people account for.
Right.
And you know, I think on one of the reasons they also acted yesterday is that there's very small windows of opportunity. These are wildly actors. I mean, how many times did El Chapo escape from custody? Right, it's only because he's been extradited and it's more difficult for him to be able to kind of engage in the bribery that it takes to be able to get free, that
he's still in custody today. And so I think that window they saw it as as a good one to act, and yes, cognizant of the consequences in terms of what
will happen next. The case of is curious too, because you know, for example, with the you know, the X I don't know what to call it, kids, he wasn't extradite, and the kidnapping of El Mayo, you know, that created a lot of unrest as well, But I think that's because there was already kind of a dispute internally between rival factions inside of that cartel where you had the Chapito's and the Maitos, and so that that's part of why we saw so much more violence, and this one
it doesn't look like there's a natural successor a lot of his closest associates and Mental's closest associates are either dead or in jail, and so you know, his son is already detained, his daughters are not that active, so
it's not clear who will take over. There's likely going to be a lot of internal power disputes and they're going to do it through violence, and so there it's important to see in terms of what's the actual capacity of the Mexican National Guard, the Mexican armed forces to ensure security, particularly in these kinds of hot spots where they are most active. That really is the major challenge today, Jose.
How does the Mexican government deal with the It's kind of a maybe too broad of a question, but with US security, so like, for example, you've had the US intelligence sharing that happened that led to this red but
we also saw earlier there was an incident. Maybe you can tell us about where a drug dealer international fugitive was seized by the United States, and cash Betel took credit for it, but the Mexicans were like, hey man, you weren't supposed to talk about that, Like, we don't like to acknowledge how much we share back and forth. Does how does a Mexican government handle that domestically? Like why are they so reticent to admit US cooperation to
the Mexican public? Is there a political dynamic I'm missing? How does that work?
Yeah?
So the case you're referred to as this Canadian apparently an Olympic athlete who was accused of being you know, well positioned an important player in organized crimes. And yeah, it's still actually not clear exactly whether or not he turned himself in, whether it was an operation, was it done by Mexican forces, did the FBI participate directly? That
would be extraordinary unusual. I have trouble believing cash Hotel sometimes because we know he has a pension for wanting to tell his own story in his own way that kind of inflates his role in all of this. So I would you know, be hesitant to believe to take his you know, totally as believable. But are You're right, there is a certain kind of reluctance on the Mexican government to admit this, and a lot of that is because of the nationalist sentiment. More and her political party
is a very Mexican nationalist movement. It's kind of one of the pillars of their political ideology. And it is seen, as you know, almost as offensive that we would need the support of the United States for all of this. Right, That's why it's such a hard line to not permit unilateral military action by the United States or even the presence of US troops in actual operations. They are Uria's troops here for trainings when was recently approved by the
Mexican Senate, for example. So there's a there's a dislike for it amongst the population, and I think because people are worried that it would be a super slope. Right, How do US entanglements abroad always begin. It always starts with that, with training, with advice. Oh, well, we should use some information. But you are right to point out that there's an extraordinary amount of information sharing, in fact, more than we probably know. Gladys Sheinbaum and Donald Trump
apparently had more than a dozen phone calls. But we only really know that details of a handful of them.
So they're obviously high level negotiations. And that's how the Mexican government likes to do things, I think, particularly with the administration we have in the United States now, where you know, they are boastful and they like to, you know, stretch the truth, to be polite about it, right, And so she's like I often, she says, I often don't like to respond to whatever his public statements he makes. We have our conversations. They happen at the table, they
happen behind closed doors. That's what's actually important in the bilateral relationship.
Got it?
And how did most Mexicans feel about how Shinbaum is navigating the relationship with the US.
Well, I think they would be feel encouraged. I think they are feel very positive about it. She has extraordinarily high approval ratings. They oscillate between seventy and eighty percent.
I mean the kinds of approval ratings people are unheard of in most parts of the world, and part of it, you know, one of the places where she does receive criticism, where people feel like more needs to be done, is precisely aroun of security under the previous administration of Lopos Obradorda, there was a pretty major shift in the security strategy where they went from an all out war, you know, they stopped talking about war, they stopped talking about, you know,
the war against the cartels, and instead started focusing more on investigation prevention above all, this philosophy of investing in communities and in young people to try to dissuade them from organized crimeums. And I think in a lot of
ways it was affected. But we're also dealing with really violent, heavily armed, and extremely well funded organizations where social investment is not going to be enough, right, And I do think that with Glaudy Scheinbaum, and she probably wouldn't say as much so as to not seem as if she's disagreeing with her predecessor because of the important place he occupies in the kind of political imaginary in this country.
But I do think has taken a far more aggressive approach of wanting to go after these major figures of I think part of it is naturally due to the pressure of the United States to kind of, you know, have more things to show off in terms of successes. But I do think that a lot of people are are feeling reassured, you know, a feeling like actions are being done and that steps are being taken to attend to the kind of quality.
Of life things.
You know, organized crime grofts have been active here in this country for decades, right, but it's sort of their their interventions there. They're the way that they actually affect the day to day of people that really kind of undermines their confidence and the ability the state to handle this.
Right, So, the.
Kidnappings, the extortion, all of that, actually under her security chief or Madragracia Hartfuch, who incidentally was once a target of the very man who was killed yesterday, has been far more on investigation and actually you know, going after the money that provides them the ability to engage in
all of this. And you know, we're seeing a very slight increase I think in the approval ratings when it comes to security here in Mexico because of that small shift but important shift in her security strategy.
So interesting.
One more question I have for you on a somewhat separate note, and I asked the same question of Professor Jeffrey Sachs, who we had on a bit earlier, and this is with regard to Cuba. I'm sure you saw Supreme Court struck down Trump's ability to levy tariffs, you know, latterly using the AIPA authority. He had used this to threaten Mexico and to threaten shine Bomb to try to
enforce this illegal oil embargo with Cuba. Do you think that that decision changes the calculus at all for the Shinebomb government?
Well, it looks like Trump is going to go forward with it no matter what. And you know, Mexico has been threatened with tariffs on half a dozen occasions and has been able to talk their way out of it almost every single time, even this most recent one where he announced these kind of across the board tariffs on every country once again. Countries, Canada, Mexico and that's part
of the USMCA are not are exempt from it. And so the thing about this one, in particular, the one about Cuba, is that my reading of it, it was primarily addressed to Mexico. Mexico, stopped sending your oil to Cuba, or We're going to impose this tariff on you. And I think the fact that we saw the government respond and suspended shipments tells us that in those closed doors negotiations. There was definitely a very clear threat to say that
this one's serious. You're not gonna be able to talk your way out of this one, that we want to choke off the supply of oil to Cuba, and so you better play ball. And that's why we've seen them suspended because I think, you know, there's a lot of voices out there who are saying, well, why don't they just break the blockade, right, why don't they just kind of challenge colls bluff? You know, the United States is having some tricky economics numbers coming published out now, not
less job creation, all of that. Can they really afford to put a tariff on its number one trading partner?
And I think they would the end, I think they've transmitted that message to the Mexican government that this is serious, and so the only way out of this for the Mexican government is through negotiation, some kind of diplomatic breakthrough to convince them that if they don't allow Mexico or any other country to provide oil, then they're going to produce a massive humanitarian crisis, which itself is going to produce a huge refugee crisis, which is going to land
on your doorstep, United States. So I think that's the kind of angle that they been pushing for, and it seems to be working. There seems to be your rumors of at least setting some oil come in so that the situation doesn't become such a big problem that we see, you know, millions of Cubans trying to leave the island because if they get no oil, we're talking about basically the collapse of society, right, you know, nothing works without energy,
there's no food, there's no hospitals, there's no schools. I mean, it'll be a nightmare scenario for the Cuban people, which would absolutely produce a refugee crisis in the region and for the United States. And I don't think Marco Rubio Stephen Miller want to be tagged with that to say you're the reason there's a new migrants crisis here in the United States.
Good point, we will say, Jose thank you so much. Great to have your analysis.
No, thank you very much for inviting me. We'll see you next Tore.
All right, guys, you know we have been tracking closely here some of the local pushback against data centers being located in communities across the country, and we are very fortunate to be joined this morning by a grassroots act who has had great success fighting and stopping a data center in New Jersey. So Charlie Cradeville is a Central
Jersey organizer with Food and Water Watch. He's the founder and editor of New Brunswick Today, community news outlet that covers the city of New Brunswick, New Jersey, and he just led the successful and viral, I might add, campaign to kill amsat Capital Management's plan to build a new twenty seven thousand square foot data center near homes and businesses last week.
Charlie, welcome.
It's a pleasure to have you.
Sure, my pleasure A big fan you guys.
Thanks man, Yeah, of course. So let's go ahead and play a little bit of this video and we can we can take a look at this is some of the celebration after your successful campaign to fight against this data center. So celebrations in the street, you know, screaming they we won, they canceled the data center. And then you also had quite a viral post as well that we can put up here. I mean, just amazingly viral.
I'm sure you had no idea the way this would take off when you posted it and can see you know, your picture here you say we won no data center and they have to build a park. So take us behind the scenes here. What did this organizing effort look like and what was the type of coalition that you all were able to build on the ground.
Yeah, there's something really special and unique about this campaign. You know, being a local journalist, I tend all the meetings and so I just happened to be at the New Brunswick Planning Board meeting the night that they revealed that this redevelopment plan included a data center that would
be right near homes and businesses. You know, we didn't think of New Brunswick as a place where we might be having these types of proposals, but sure enough, this is the first time it's happened, and we really only had nine days before the city Council was supposed to approve it and finalize the redevelopment plan. And once it's in there, I know from experience how hard it can be to fight the site plans because they'll just say
it's a permitted use in the redevelopment plan. And it was a really sloppy redevelopment plan with no limits or controls on how big it is or how many there could be. So yeah, they said a single twenty seven thousand square foot data center verbally at this one meeting, but there would be nothing stopping that private equity firm from coming back with a much larger or a more
devastating proposal. And so yeah, I know work at Food and Water Watch, where we have called for a nationwide moratorium on large scale AI data centers, along with two hundred and fifty other groups, And so I knew the right people to contact, and I knew the right information to share, and in those nine days, we were able to build a coalition with students at Rutgers University, environmental groups around the state, and the local people who were.
Going to be most affected.
So you know, one of those pictures, I'm there knocking on doors in the Lincoln Gardens neighborhood to warn people that this proposal's coming up and you need to call your council president show up at this meeting. And you know, I was expecting a big response, but certainly it exceeded my wildest expectation.
Yeah, Charlie, don't you are enemy number one to a lot of people in the tech industry, many of them. I know some of these people.
They view you.
And your ILK as they would call it, as the vanguard of the de growth movement, as people who refuse to accept this forward progress and productivity in their lives. Why were you even interested in blocking this data center in the first place.
Well, I know how devastating they can be from some of my colleagues around the nation that have helped fight and in some cases have not been able to stop them. So they can be devastating to ecosystems. The noise and pollution can be harmful to humans, and it's the type of development that it's the opposite of job creation.
Right.
Normally we are in this sort of like environmentalists versus jobs dynamic. But these facilities have, you know, very few permanent jobs, and in fact, the artificial intelligence industry is famous for replacing human workers with computer technology and putting people out of work. So those arguments don't carry water.
I have gotten a little taste of how strong the opposition is, and I knew that it was something that we needed to tap into here in New Brunswick because at the end of the day, I wanted our city Council to remember this moment next time a data center is proposed, and they'll just say no because they understand that the people don't want it, at least not here
in our city. And yeah, I think you know, food and MORET and Watch is right to support a moratorium on this stuff because otherwise we're going to be making decisions that we're going to be locked into and we're going to come to regret.
Let's put E four up on the screen here, because your movement is part of a rising push, rising local grassroots push against these data centers. This was a heat map report from a last month which set a mid rising local pushback US data centers. Data center cancelation surged in twenty twenty five. A heat map pro review a public record shows twenty five data centers scrub last year after local pushback that was four times as many as twenty twenty four. You know, I live in a rural
community in Virginia. Virginia has really been the you know, the epicenter of these data center locations, and I've seen the way that the awareness and activism around these data centers has shifted just in the past couple of years here as well. Why do you think that your success, you know, really sort of tapped into a zeitgeist. Why it was so important, why people found it so important.
What do you think the issues are that you're touching on that are resonating really in a cross partisan and cross ideological way as well.
Yeah, I mean in New Brunswick we have a lot of development and redevelopment going on. I know there's a lot of frustration over it, but it's often you know, some people love it and some people don't love it. In this case, this is a piece of land that had been completely vacant for years. The developer kicked out small businesses to you know, supposedly had big plans and
never delivered on them. So I knew the local people were not going to support a plan that was going to you know, basically change what was supposed to be a park to a big data center. I also knew that more broadly, people are very frustrated with artificial intelligence and the impacts it's having, how we're seeing so much misinformation and slop in our feeds that we didn't see just a few years ago, and how it's ultimately a big money maker for the extremely wealthy and virtually nothing
is trickling down to regular folks. So different people have different reasons for opposing it, but it is it is definitely something that is widely felt and we're all sort of on the same side, whether you know, we don't like it because of the impact it's having on you know, our social media feeds, or the impact it's having on our economy, or the impact it's having on our environment, or just the fact that, you know, we don't want developers to be able to make the maximum profit without
giving anything back to the community, and that's what we were seeing here with this redevelopment.
Yeah, I think it's fascinating.
So the response I've seen to you, Charlie, I'll read one from a VC who I know, Gary Tann. He says, a fully built data center complex generates thirty one million dollars a year in state taxes, sixty one million in local It creates four hundred and thirty direct jobs as facility, plus many more indirect construction phase jobs. So clearly, you
and your community, you're not buying that parse that argument. Oh, you could have built a bigger park, Charlie, if you would let it be there, and then the new park would eventually materialize, So you're not buying it?
Tell us why?
Yeah, I mean those numbers are kind of made up, right, I don't The specifics on this project were few and far between. The developer never showed up in New Brunswick to explain what they wanted to do or why this was all just in the early phase of a redevelopment plan secondhand, and frankly.
There were lies involved, right.
We were misled at the initial city council meeting where they voted on this, and they were told this is just minor tweaks that they're making to the commercial component of the project, which was supposed to be offices in retail originally. So yeah, I have no faith or trust in you know, developers and officials who are going to mislead us, and you know, at the end of the day, you know they're not making the case.
They're not making a good case for it.
You know this This company basically came in and said, oh, yeah, that developer messed up, but we're going to take over their project where the financial backers, and don't worry, he's not involved anymore.
So you could trust us. But then they're in Palm Beach.
They never came to New Brunswick and explained what they wanted to do or why, and you know, ultimately this seemed like a half baked plan all along. But it was so important that we stopped the redevelopment plan because if it got through, it would have allowed them to have as many data centers as they wanted.
Yeah, and to your point, you know, I was watching some of the town hall footage from Missouri community where they were pushing back on, you know, efforts to put a data center in their town, and the concerns really were everything from the you know, the I don't know what I want to call it, mundane, but you know, concerned about noise pollution, what's the traffic going to mean, what's it going to mean for the character of our town, to the more existential And to that point, I wanted
to get your reaction to some recent comments from Sam Altman, because I think there's also something there's a deeply anti human ideology that is at the heart of this. So let's go ahead and take a listen to Sam Altman comparing the energy needs of AI to the energy needs of human beings.
One of the things that is always unfair in this comparison is people talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model relative to how much it costs a human to do one inference query, But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like twenty years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.
And not only that, it took like the very widespread evolution of the one hundred billion people that have ever lived and learned not to get eaten by predators and learn how to figure out science and whatever to produce you. And then you took whatever you know you took. So the fair comparison is if you ask chatchpta question, how much energy does it take once its model is trained
to answer that question versus a human? And probably AI has already caught up on an energy efficiency basis measured that way.
So what do you make of those comments comparing the you know, the value and the energy needs of you know, babies up through adult humans versus robots.
Yeah, it's certainly interesting.
I think that you know, folks who think of it in those terms, are you know, demonstrating the coldness that they.
Have towards society as we know it.
And you know, innovation can and be ken. It is a great thing, you know, but we have to stay true to what we are, you know, as as human beings, as a society that you know loves and cares for one another. You know, we can't just throw it all away and change our physical environment to facilitate technology growth over our own sustainability as a species. And of course, you know, at the at the end of the day,
it's it's it's about money, right. These folks are going to make a ton of money off this, and they don't want to share the wealth. They want to control everything, including information, including money, including water, including our you know, electricity, And you know we can't stand for that.
You know, it's it's a power brat. That's awesome.
Yeah, all while promising to eliminate all or most white collar jobs. I mean, that's the thing that to me just continues to honestly astonish me, is they have the nerve to say, how dare you stand against a data center in your community when the quote unquote deal that they're threatening us with is we want to use up all the power if we find a robot to be more efficient than you than we feel perfectly entitled to privilege that robot right. We want to suck up we
want to you know, make spike your electricity bills. We want to suck up the water, we want to suck up the resources, all in service of ultimately eliminating your job. And if you object to any of that, even from the hyper local perspective of I don't want to be part of this year in my community for a whole variety of reasons, then you are you know, anti technology, You're a degrowth, You're enemy number one, a sager put it.
Yeah, a lot of interesting comments in response to that tweet. Yeah, all I can say is, you know, I support the humans over the machines, and I think that, you know, we should stick together, and no matter what the development is proposed, whether it's a pipeline or a power plant or a big AI data center, we should defend our communities.
If we don't want those things in our communities, we have a right to stand up and say no. And it's on them to make the case for why that's going to be good in the long run, and they are not making that case.
Totally agree, Charlie.
They call you enemy, I call you hero number one. Thank you very much for joining us, Sir, genuinely inspired by what you guys were able to do. Thank you for joining our show. We appreciate it.
Thank you my pleasure. Keep up the good work, all.
Right, Thank you guys so much for watching.
We appreciate it.
We should be back in studio tomorrow as long as all the roads, electricity and all of that cooperates. And of course we're going to have our great State of the Union live stream, so we'll see you all
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