4-5-25 The Weekend Hour 3: Motherhood & Proxy Voting. A Contrarian Viewpoint

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the weekday program. Let's get you the weekend program. So
I appreciate you doing that. Now let's go to let's
do something really arcane. This how long it take me
to do this? But I want to talk about proxy voting.
Do you know what proxy voting is? Have you heard

(01:33):
about the controversy over this? Why would I even care
about this because I think it's an example. Well, let's
first define it. Proxy voting is is a way of
voting where whatever decision making body you're part of, your
your church board, the school board, or the United States Congress,

(01:53):
where you delegate your voting power to somebody else in
order to enable a vote in that body, so you
don't have to be there. Now, I think some places
proxy voting is perfectly fine. I proxy vote, for example,
on my investments. I voted on I don't gonna tell

(02:16):
you how, but I just voted on I own shares
of this company iHeart Media, and I've voted by proxy.
I voted online either yesterday or day before. And I
think that's perfectly legitimate. Because as a shareholder, I really

(02:36):
don't have anything to do with the day to day
operations of the company other than the fact I work
here day to day. So I vote absentee. I vote
by proxy online, and I vote for the board of
directors and compensation of the c suite and different things
like who's going to be the auditor of blah blah blah.
So that's proxy voting. I know, you know what it is.

(03:00):
I still feel like I need to explain them because
they want to vote by proxy in Congress. Now, I'm
going to be a contrarian here, and I'm just giving
you a heads up because what I'm going to talk
about is probably going to irritate some people. Other people

(03:20):
will piss off, and maybe a few of you will
agree with it. I don't care whether only one of
you agrees with it. This is what I believe. And
I don't come on this program or any other program
that I do and tell you anything other than what
I do believe. We already have a problem in Congress.
Let me just ask you a simple question. Do you
think your member of Congress really represents you? Remember, we

(03:45):
have a republican form of government. We the people hold
the ultimate power. So we elect our representatives to go
to DC or to go to your state capital, and
to conduct government business on our behalf. I can tell
you right now that I don't think the people that
work in the Colorado State Paula Bua represent me at all.

(04:07):
There might be a few here there that don't even
live in my district that probably vote more along what
I believe than the majority of people that control the
Colorado legislature. There are a bunch of Marxism communists in Colorado.
It's like if I ask you, if you live in
California or New York or Illinois, do you really think
that your legislature represents your beliefs Now, if you're really

(04:29):
radically lefty, if you're a Marxist, they probably do. But
if you're even a moderate or a conservative, you probably
think they don't. Well, if they if you already have
the feeling or the belief that they don't represent you,
or even worse, if they really don't represent you because
they're so ideological that they can't even listen to your

(04:52):
point of view, then you don't have representation. So it's
already bad enough, and they already spend way too much
time in Washington. Now, I bitch and moan because they
don't spend much time in Washington. So what do I mean,
how's that not contradictory? Well, what I mean is they

(05:13):
barely work now, you know, they're they're now. We were
told by Speaker Johnson and send a majority leader Thoon
that they were going to do a five day work week. Now,
for those of us like me, it works six days
a week. I'm like, well, whoop poop dee doo, you're
going to work five days. Call somebody that cares a

(05:34):
lot of Americans work more than five days a week,
and they certainly work more than forty hours a week.
And I'm and trust me, members of Congress do not
work forty hours a week. They usually fly in on
a Monday, and they usually try to fly in and
they hold a roll call sometime mid afternoon two or
three o'clock Eastern time so that they can claim that

(05:54):
they worked on Monday. And then usually they try to
finish business on Thursday so they can all hit the
airports on Thursday evening and fly out and be home
for a long weekend. And that's not even counting, you know,
like you and I will get here at iHeart haven't
looked at the calendar. Let's see what July looks like.

(06:15):
In on the calendar, let me scroll to July. So
this year our well, the fourth of July is on
a Friday. So guess what I get off for Fourth
of July Friday. So if I want to take a
long way, I'll get Friday off. But if I wanted
to take off, let's say the week before I wanted
to have one, two, three, four, four days off or

(06:36):
use four days of vacation to get Sunday through, I'd
probably work on the fifth. Anyway, to do this program,
i'd have to take four days of vacation, which I'll
probably do that. But you know what Congress will do.
They'll take off. Probably I haven't seen their schedule. They'll
probably take off. Let's say they'll probably quit work on

(06:58):
Thursday or Friday, June twenty six, twenty seven, and they
might be like, we might be lucky if they come
back by July eleventh, two weeks for a one day
holiday that you and I would get in the private sector.
So they live in this fantasy world. I would rather
and believe me, I think we're better off when they're

(07:18):
not in DC because that means they're not passing laws. However,
with this president, I wish they were spending more time
in DC because we have majorities in both the House
and the Senate, and I want Trump's agenda past. So
get off your asses and get back to work. Quit
taking time off. And if you have a baby, well,

(07:39):
guess what. There are a lot of women that have
babies now. I know that we coddled mothers, and we
should coddle mothers because well, as guys, you can claim
you know what it's like to give birth, but you
have no clue what it's like to give birth. And
of course we expect moms to bond with those babies
and to nurture those babies. They grew up to be

(08:00):
good citizens. But the whole programs now of giving mothers like,
you know, twelve weeks off, I think it's kind of
gotten out of hand. I think it's out of control.
You know, neither one of my neither my daughter nor
my daughter in law took off that much time when

(08:22):
they had my three grandkids. When my wife had our
two kids, she didn't sort of take twelve weeks off.
And they're all grown and doing actually doing quite well.
But we've gotten this idea that everybody just needs all
of this time, all of this time to do all
of this stuff. And I say, no, it's absolutely not

(08:42):
stop it. Just stop it. In recent days, babies have
become the centerpiece at the US Capitol, carried by their
congresswomen mothers advocating for a real change that would allow
proxy voting for new parents. A Republican Anna Paulina Luna

(09:03):
from Florida. Brittany Petterson, She's a Republican. Britney Petterson's a
Democrat from Colorado. They've all crossed the aisle to hold
hands and propose that the House members be allowed twelve
weeks in which to delegate their votes after childbirth.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
No, stop it.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
It may be well intentioned, it's a feel good idea,
but it ignores two things, the history and the practical
significance of in person voting for Congress. I'll explain next.
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Speaker 2 (10:38):
Hey, what's your number? What's your number?

Speaker 3 (10:39):
On Saturdays? The same that is on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday and Sunday. It's always the same, three three ones
zero three. Let's go straight to the Constitution, because that's
where I like to go. Article one, Section four, Clause two.
Article one, Section four clause two. It says this the

(11:00):
Congress shall assemble at least once in every year. Got it,
at least once in every year? Okay, and when you
get there, you that's when you vote. Uh why is
this so difficult?

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Why? Hm?

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Ask yourself? Why why would somebody want to vote by proxy?
Why would they want to do that?

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Mhmm.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year,
and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December,
unless they shall, by law appoint a different day. Okay,
pretty clear. Uh, there's nothing in here about proxy voting anywhere.
So what what what? What's the push the Congress? Well,

(12:01):
let me put it this. Let's go back. You know,
I like to hear the Constitution. Let's go back in history.
That expectation that Congress shall assemble at least once in
every year was up ended during COVID nineteen when then
Speaker Pelosi implemented proxy voting. In May of twenty twenty,

(12:23):
it was an experiment, and that experiment was ended by
Speaker Kevin McCarthy when he took over. And Speaker McCarthy
at the time said, and.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
I believe we're proving we can do it.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
I believe the Speaker when she just said just a
few weeks ago that we are captains of the ship,
that we will be the last to leave, not the
first to abandon it like you will today. A vote
for this resolution is a vote to abandon this House.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
A vote to proxy, vote.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
To band in the constitution, to band in two hundred
and thirty years a tradition. You'll still have your title,
you'll have no power, and worst of all, your constituents
will have no voice.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
I think that's the best line. Of all.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
Your constituents will have no voice because you're not really
there doing the job you got elected to do. And
that experiment failed because you know why. The proxy voting
during COVID quickly turned into a loophole that was exploited
by members who were doing what well. They were casting
votes while they were campaigning, while they were literally on

(13:41):
vacation in Europe, while they were attending the wedding of
a celebrity abroad. It became a convenience, not a necessity,
and it was starting to be abused by those who
simply didn't want to show up. Now, Speaker Johnson explained
his opposition to reviving that rule. He said, to allow
proxy voting for one category of members new mothers with newborns,

(14:06):
would open the door for many others and ultimately result
in remote voting. They would harm the operation via deliberative
body and diminish the critical role of the legislative branch. Now,
the President appeared supportive at first. President Trump was like,
you know, maybe we all to do that from moms.

(14:26):
But this speaker Johnson later quoted him saying, Mike, you
have my proxy on proxy voting, a tongue in cheek
remark that underscores just how unseerious this proposal has become.
And the speaker added, Democrats tried proxy voting before it
it was terribly abused. We cannot open that Pandora's box again.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Now.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Ironically, or maybe not, one of the loudest voices opposing
proxy voting now, Marjorie Taylor Green once use it herself,
allegedly while on vacation, according to another congressman, the congressman
from Florida. So if anybody knows how easily proxy voting

(15:06):
can be misused, it would be those who have actually
misused it. So what did Marjorie Taylor Green have to.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Say about that? Well, she gets really ticked off.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
Well, we just voted on this rule. Lunasville is extremely unfortunate,
you know, being in Congress is a privilege. You don't
have to be here, and there's plenty of people in
her district that could serve in Congress if she chose
it for, you know, time to be home and be
a mother. I'm very much against the bill that she's

(15:37):
trying to force to the fork and the way she's
going about it, and I think it's wrong, and it's
really going to open up the door to proxy voting,
which is already unconstitutional and we shouldn't be doing it.
And I think members of Congress need to basically leave
their egos at the door and realize that this is
an important job. In the same way that soldiers go

(15:59):
off and they're deployed overseas, they come home and actually
meet their babies for the first time, and their babies
are several months old. Members of Congress don't have to
be here. Is they don't have to be here. Being
a member of Congress is a privilege. You're serving your district.
There's lots of seasons of life. I'm a mother, I've
raised three children, and when my children were babies and

(16:21):
were young, I prioritize them in that season of life.
Now I serve in Congress because I'm not raising children,
and I think that's a really important point to make.
And if any member of Congress, for any reason whatsoever,
finds them in a situation where they're not able to
do the job here, the important job we're elected to do,

(16:41):
they should step down because someone else can serve in
their place.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
That's enough.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
The key to Congress being effective is to rub shoulders
with other members of Congress, to attend and participate in debates, hearings,
committee meetings, to have those kind of you know, in
an office setting, you have those conversations that occur in
a hallway where some brilliant idea comes up, or you

(17:12):
reach an agreement or something, or maybe you've been arguing
with a colleague and you've had a disagreement. You and
you meet out in the parking lot and you talk
about things and you talk it out. That's what Congress
is supposed to do to represent us. And if you
have a baby, there are a lot of mothers that
figure out a way to keep doing their jobs and

(17:34):
to raise their babies. And if you can't, then don't
run for Congress or resign. Now, let me tell you
about Congressman Britney Patterson from Colorado because he did something
that I think absolutely proves my point. That's coming up next,
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(17:56):
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Speaker 2 (18:00):
I'll be right back tonight.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
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Michael Brown, more than you can possibly possibly need or
maybe actually need more. So why why spend any time
on this proxy voting? Because I believe that Congress is
already disassociated from its member, from from its constituents. They

(19:20):
live in an entirely different world. They they they inside
the Beltway is just a different environment, and they forget
what it's like to work in the real world. We
have to balance. You know, the car breaks down, so
you know, somebody else has to help you get to work.

(19:41):
You got to call an uber or somebody. You know,
when the kids is sick. You know, you got a
family member that's died. I mean, you know your grandmother
gets ill, You get and you're you're the caretaker. I mean,
there's a bazillion things that go wrong, or I shouldn't
even say go wrong. Life happens. Well, why should Longress
be any different When their job, put as simply as possible,

(20:06):
is to represent you, to represent you, to act on
your behalf, to do the nation's business as they believe
their constituents, and as you convince them that you want
it done. They work for us, and proxy voting is

(20:29):
one more step to isolate us from them. And quite frankly,
if if they're home for twelve weeks taking care of
a baby, how do they really know how to vote
on something? How do they really know what to believe about?
Are they going to rely on what? Oh my god,
are they going to rely on what they hear on television?

(20:51):
So depending on you know, if they're Democrats or Republicans,
are are they going to just do what Fox News
tells them to do or are they just going to
do what MSNBC tells them to do? Oh my god, No,
I don't want that. I want them to have to
be there, to have all the debates, the conversations, the arguments,
the dinners, the snacks, the hallway conversations, everything else in
order to represent you think about this, The slippery slope

(21:17):
is pretty obvious to me. I know postpartum mothers require
time to recover, but if you've had surgery, you have
recovery time. Also, you have an illness, you have an injury.
Why should postpartum mothers be the sole exception for proxy
voting because we don't do proxy voting for anything else. Now,

(21:42):
think about the last time you saw before she died.
Was it Barbara? Wasn't Barbara Boxer? It was Michael who
was your other senatory Barbara Boxer? Or Diane Feinstein, Remember
Diane Feinstein, she was in that committee meeting. She had
no clue what she was doing. She was being wheeled
in and out Hill's bills. We might we had a

(22:04):
proxy president for four years. We saw Mitch McConnell, who
you know, had his vase of vegel or whatever it
was in front of the cameras that time, actually several
times where he just started staring off into space. We
see people being wheeled in wheelchairs onto the house floor,

(22:26):
almost like a seene out of weekend at Bernie's, just
to cast a vote. And that visibility for me matters.
If we start allowing proxy voting for just any sort
of physical condition, what stops others from hiding serious health
issues from the American people under the same justification. I'd
rather know you're sick at home than you'd be lying

(22:49):
about something. And I certainly don't want you off on
some European vacation, you know, or somewhere else and then
having somebody cast a vote for you. There's no clue
limiting principle here. Sometimes members just can't vote. That's always
been the case.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
You know.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
You think about when they had to travel from Philadelphia
to DC, or they had to travel from Portland, Maine,
or they had to Savannah, Georgia, wherever they had to
come from, and weather, rain, snow, ice, whatever it might
be kept them from arriving on time. That's just the

(23:30):
way it was. Or maybe you're at a baseball game,
at a baseball congressional baseball practice and you get shot,
like Steve Scalize did. He was out for months for
his recovery. My point is, life happens, Absences happen, and
it's not unique to pregnancy. Well, let me tell you

(23:50):
about Congressman Peterson from Colorado. She's one of those that's
advocating for proxy voting. I found it deliciously ironic when
she shows up on Morning Joe on MSNBC holding her baby,
actually using her baby as a prop and crying about, oh,

(24:12):
we really need proxy vote. Well wait a minute, sweetheart,
you're you're doing a cable television appearance holding your newborn
and crying about how you need proxy voting. Seems to
me you've kind of worked it out because you were
certainly able to do a cable news hit. Why can't
you go right back in and vote? She can, She

(24:38):
can be both a congresswoman and she can be a mother.
She just doesn't want to. Then you shouldn't be in Congress.
Now you want me to give you the really infuriating thing,
Congressman Peterson, like everybody else in Congress, they have access

(24:58):
to sitting are are you sitting down? They have access
to taxpayer funded daycare. Other who has that? The average
working money? You can only dream about that. Walking from
the House office buildings to the Florida the House of
Representatives to take to cast a vote takes about fifteen minutes.

(25:24):
I've walked it many times myself, but either the House
or the Senate takes about well. From the Senate there's
actually a train you can ride, so usually have to walk.
You can just you can walk or you can sit
in the train and the little trolley will just take
you over to the Capitol building. They've got the resources.

(25:45):
This is lazy ass stuff that I unbelievable. So Congressman
Woman Luna, the Republican from Florida over on X said,
we have multiple expecting children. We lose precious time to
pass President Trump's agenda if we lose those members, even

(26:06):
for just a few weeks while they recover. So if
that's the case, then why is she among those people
that are grinding the legislative process to a halt over
a deeply unpopular rule change, which is exactly what she did. Democrats,
seizing a chance to divide Republicans install the agenda, are
eagerly joining in, and unfortunately so some Republicans. It makes

(26:31):
no sense to me whatsoever. You know, I look at
I look at my daughter and my daughter in law.
I look at people that work in this building, in
this radio station who have had children. I know the
reality of physical recovery after childbirth. And I'm going to

(26:53):
say this, most women don't need weeks or months before
they're capable of walking a few hundred feet from their
office to the House floor to cast a vote. You
are not some porcelain doll that needs to be tucked
away in protected post delivery hell's bells. Even most insurance companies,
it's pretty much wambam, thank you, ma'am. You get in

(27:15):
and have the baby, get out. You know, the long
gone are the days of you go to the hospital
to have a baby, and you're there for six days, unless,
of course, there are some extenuating circumstances or there's some
illness or some problem that most insurance companies want you
in and out.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
And then let's be honest. I thought women were strong.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
I thought women were capable of both serving in Congress
and being mothers. That's the message they ought to be sending.
That's the message you ought to be sending to the
daughters in our society that are like the girl that
was in the fencing tournament that took a knee because
she got ready, and she was in a fencing tournament

(27:57):
and she looks up and there.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Is a trend. There's a man.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
She's in a woman's fencing tournament, and she realizes that
this guy is going to beat the snot out of her,
so she takes a knee and she gets black carted,
she gets kicked out of the tournament. What is it
we can't define we can't define women? Well Trump did,

(28:25):
and I thought we wanted to hold women up as
being strong, fierce, and I think they are. But this
whole idea of proxy voting just reinforces the notion, the
outdated notion that motherhood is a weakness and you got
to have some special exemption.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
No, you do not.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
You ran for the job, you got elected, all of
which was voluntary. Nobody forced you to do that. So
toughen it up, walk the fifteen minutes, cast your vote
or resign. It's the Weekend with Michael Brown. Text line
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Brown USA. So everybody knows that elections have consequences, Yet
somehow the consequences managed to take those who voted for them. Shockingly,

(29:56):
by surprise, if you live in Los ange Angelis County,
you may have been shocked as a new quarter percent
sales tax, ostensibly to raise money for services for the homelessness,
went into effect after a referendum vote last November. Last November,
voters in Los Angeles passed Measure A that replaced an

(30:19):
increased an earlier county wide sales tax for the homeless.
Now that that tax, of the earlier one, which was
passed almost ten years ago, failed to stop the growth
of homeless population, and in my opinion, probably actually encouraged
the homeless population to grow, because, after all, when you
start throwing money at something, you start subsidizing something. Because

(30:42):
here what you're doing. When you throw money at homelessness,
you're subsidizing it. And when you subsidize something, you get
more of it. So you throw money at homelessness, you're
going to get more homelessness. It's kind of like you
throw free stuff for illegal aliens, You're going to get
more illegal aliens. Got you got to stop the flow,

(31:03):
and you got to stop the poll, and the poll
is freebies. I'd make an analogy here to your at
costco and you see the little freebies, little samples. When
you take the samples, well you're just that it's human nature.
Oh so free alta. So I'll see what it's like.
Somebody offers you a free phone, free housing, free food. Yeah,

(31:25):
well it's easier than working. LA residents recently found out
that two point three billion dollars spent on homeless services
in LA is unaccounted for, and the money had come
from the same sales tax referendums like Measure A had

(31:47):
been designed to fund. So where's the money, and Mayor
Bass in LA where's your doge? Where's your Department of
Government efficiency? Two point three billion? I've been to ELI
in a while, but I bet I could find two
point three billion dollars that you could either spend the

(32:08):
money on that would be worthwhile someone infrastructure, roads, bridges, highways, parks,
whatever it might be. Or I bet there are a lot
of taxpayers in Los Angeles they wouldn't mind getting two
point three billion dollars getting their their pro rate amount
back into their pocket.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
But this equitable.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
Utopia that everybody keeps pursuing is never more than just
you know, we just need to know a tax increase
that's the liberal ideology. Just give us a little more
money and we can fix whatever the problem is with
just a little more money. And then you find out, oh,
the money's not actually going where we thought it was
going to go. Hmm, shocker. I don't know why people

(32:50):
are shocked by it at all. I think it reason
that today is a hands off It's called hands off Day. Yeah,
they're going to go protest Trump and Musk because you
may not know, but digital Musk is really he's he's
really the president. Trump's just to figure head and and JD.

(33:12):
Vance he's just over They've just parked him over here somewhere.
Musk is the one they're really after, the guy that
was building the cars to save the planet, which I
thought was there that you know, the people that go
to the church of the climate activists. I thought that
you bought a tesla because you were going to save
the planet, and now they're going to destroy the planet
because nobody's gonna buy them anymore. And if you do
buy one, can you imagine any a tesla right now?

(33:35):
I'd be I'd be scared to pull it out of
the garage, driving down the highway, parking anywhere. But even better,
than that is. How many idiots have we seen king uh,
you know, or damaging somehow damaging a tesla. You'd think
that even the idiots would realize by now, oh, these
cars have cameras. Maybe I should try to hide myself.

(34:00):
But they walk right up to them. They walk right up,
face full on with the camera. They've got their distinctive backpack,
whatever they've got with them. They pull their key out
and they key the car, They damage the window, they
spray paint, or they do whatever.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
It's all on camera. These are really idiots.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
But the Hands Off, if you go to the Hands
Off website, you will see a list of non government
organizations that you have to scroll page after page after page.
Are so many of them, and you finally get over
here in the corner and it tells you, oh, we
encourage those who are participating in the Hands Off to
not engage in violence and don't bring a weapon, even

(34:37):
if weapons are permitted, don't bring a weapon. We don't
encourage violence. And I thought, wait a minute, if you're
having to tell the people that you're asking to come
to your protest not to engage in violence, maybe the
people who are coming to your protest are inclined.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
To engage in violence.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
So I as a public service, I would just say
that if you're driving a Tesla today, maybe you want
to stay home. Maybe you want to drive your other
car or keep it in the garage. I think that
one reason that these violent leftists are so out of
line is they're confident there will be no consequences. Now,
the tests, some of the tests that people are being

(35:14):
held to account, but at least in college towns in California,
they're probably right. Mask Antifa vandals violently attacked a Talking
Points USA staff member at a tabling event on UC
Davis this past week. Just Thursday, the far left protesters
completely destroyed tpussays proved me wrong tabling event with former
police officer Brandon Tatum. They stole the tent, ripped down

(35:38):
the banners, tried to steal the staffer's iPad and all
his electronics. But rather than prove anybody wrong, those goons
just prove that these dumbasses are right by making a
spectacle of the less lack of any argument except force
and violence. As always under liberal rule, the authorities had
their thumb on the scale. And I say that because

(36:03):
again you could see it on X if you follow
me police just watch passively, just set around as they
started stealing the canopy and tried to steal all the
other stuff. Ironically, the ACAB group all cops are bastards,
a favorite slogan among the Antifa hooligans. They don't seem

(36:24):
to appreciate the neglect. Just last week, a transsexual who
would fit in with an Antifa attacked a Talking Points
USA chapter president Page Newman with a bike lock. So
hands off today, except they probably won't. Hey, thanks for
tuning in the weekend with Michael Brown. Always glad to

(36:45):
have you with me. Everybody, have a great weekend and
I'll see you next weekend.